백석과 강소천의 문학적 상관성 연구

Abstract

The present study is aimed to examine the literary relation and life of poet Baek Seok and Kang So-chun, and to demonstrate their literary influence and correlation. Researching their relationship, scholars who are studying them have said that When the relationship between Baek Seok and Kang So-chun, they have assumed that Baek Seok wrote the work 'Prologue of Jack-o'-Lantern' in his letters, but Kang So-chun's 'Jack-o'-Lantern', which is a collection of poems for children, proved the reason why Baek Seok wrote 'Prologue of Jack-o'-Lantern'. The very reason is that Baek Seok was with Kang So-chun in Manchuria and Baek Seok got directly involved in the publication of Kang So-chun's 'Jack-o'-Lantern'. Although their fate of creative literature had been determined according to the logic of exclusion and selection at the outbreak of Korean Civil War, their literary works vividly show their influence over each other. It seems that Baek Seok had been influenced from his pupil Kang So-chun as much as the former has done on the latter. As Kang So-chun wrote children's stories and lyrics for children's songs, it can be conjectured that his master Baek Seok had also been interested in children's literature since he taught Kang So-chun. Particularly, one of the characteristics of children's songs that Kang So-chun wrote is a question-answer form. The children's poems by Baek Seok are in a question-answer style while the contents form a children's story. This can be interpreted as Kang So-chun's influence over his master's literature. Besides, there are literary correlations between these two writers in subjects and themes, which will be examined in a subsequent study.