이한직의 시인식과 지성주의의 변화

Abstract

This study intends to take a close look at how the meaning of ‘intelligence' changed in the history of Korean modernist poems by ex- amining how the cognition about poetry of Han-jik Lee changed. Lee made his debut as a poet through the recommendation of the literary magazine, 『Munjang』, in the late 1930's, and he had a strong sense of identity as a modernist. He pursued the intelligence combined with ‘just judgment, sagacious insight, and passionate will.’ He understood the intelligence of poetry as the whole-personal ability to depict the world of order and integration. This led to the contemplative attitude of the poetic subject. This type of poetic thinking is similar to the traditional lyricist point of view in the 1950's where the poetry aimed to understand intelligence as ‘ideology' and overcome the division in the modern times by creating the world of harmony and integration. Such a poetic orientation became the reason he withdrew from the coterie, <Hubangi>. However, he breaks from the trend of contemplatively examining the vitality of absolute world and poetic subject and constructing the poem aesthetically considering the historical reality of Korea in the 1950's. The poetic subject which accepts and endures futility as it is in the world of barrenness and insensateness appear in Lee's poems after the Korean War. Lee published the writings that emphasize the intelligence (criticism) which introspects the realistic relationship between the world and the subject in the late 1950's and practiced them in his poems after the April 19 Revolution. This shows the transition from contemplative intelligence to reflective intelligence in the history of modernist poems of Korea.