김기림의 시에 나타난 고향의 의미

Abstract

In Kim Ki-rim’s early poems, his hometown is not described based on its actual appearance but as a fantasy. This is done by juxtaposing or compressing space through the expansion of space and time. In Kim Ki-rim’s poems, his hometown is not an imaginary place separated from reality, but a heterotopia that overlaps with reality. From the mid-1930s, Kim Ki-rim’s hometown gained a more realistic appearance in his poetry. In the works from this period, time and space in the poem itself are presented as the current living space, and fragmentary narrative situations are presented based on the narrator’s description. The narrator does not maintain an emotional distance from his hometown and is critical toward modern civilization. After the liberation period, Kim Ki-rim began viewing his hometown as a utopia. This utopia, which Kim Ki-rim recognized in the city after liberation, is modeled after his mythical hometown. After liberation, he presented his mythical hometown, like the hometown of Genesis or the hometown of Zion, as the prototype of a new country to be built in the future. Although this hometown exists in mythology, it is characterized by the combination of nature and civilization. In addition, Kim Ki-rim tried to find the home of the national community in his utopic hometown. In Kim Ki-rim’s poems, his hometown is a channel through which he could peer deep into ’his own individual unconsciousness and a medium to clarify his vision of utopia. Analyzing the role of the hometown in Kim Ki-rim’s works could help us understand his poetic world from a new perspective.