白石 詩 硏究의 留意點과 課題

Abstract

The study of Baekseok’s poetry started in full swing from 1988 and there were more achievements compared to any other poets. The number of thesis papers and articless issued in academic journals is among the top and he had the most number of complete collections published among writers. Along with the growing interest in Baekseok and increasing amount of studies on his work, there are cases where studies apply too broad interpretation, exaggerating small characteristics as the general characteristics of his work, or studies that adopt analysis contradictory to the time period. The analysis of “Haebin Sucheop”, which is regarded to be his earliest prose, “the Sea of Gakisaki”, and “the Street of Iznocuniminato”, showed that his use of dialect was not the result of intentional methodology but was a natural articulation from Baekseok’s disposition. While using dialect, he arranged it appropriately so that it would not disturb readers following the context of the poems. He viewed objects uniquely from his own viewpoint and restructured them with his own language. The basic atmosphere of his poetry is solitude, melancholy, and sense of alienation. The important characteristics of Baekseok’s poetry are the ambiguity of expressions, which, linked to the technique of ellipsis and condensation, creates a unique charm of his poetry. The structure of binary antithesis, coupled with the technique of repetition and enumeration, form important characteristics of Baekseok’s poetry. These features consistently appear in his poems from his early days to the liberation period, settling as the expressional aesthetics of Baekseok. The true aspects of the expressional aesthetics should be thoroughly reviewed through detailed analysis of his works. After the publication of Deer, a collection of his poems, he displays an effort to go over the visible objects and find spiritual values. Such attitude appears more actively and persistently during the time he stayed in Hamgyungdo Province and Manchuria. The exploration of spiritual values evolves into historical and communal imagination, which is a developmental progress seen very rarely in the history of Korean poetry. In this respect, the spiritual significance of the progress of Baekseok’s poetry should be studied meticulously.