노천명 시의 풍속 풍경과 시선의 문제

Abstract

This study aims to discuss how Manners and Customs are combined with a poetic forms to generate a meaning by examining poems with festival theme written by Nho Cheon Myong. This research explores whether in the typical poetic world of Nho Cheon Myong the combination of solitude, ego, and femininity appears in her festival poems as in her other works, or if she attempted to expand her poetic world by adding an aspect of community spirit. Overall, this study looks into the characteristics of the manners and customs illustrated in her poetry, along with the meaning of perspectives of the narrators and observers in her poetry. Manners and Customs in Nho's poems appear in the forms of weddings, first-birthday parties, funerals, New Year’s Eve parties, New Year parties, the namsadang performance, etc. While a strong concept of family manners and customs is set as the base, such events in the poems also function as social events. Not only do these festivals have a personal meaning, but they also serve as a medium for people to express themselves toward society. For instance, people in the poems discover their personal identities as they begin getting alone and subsequently forge a relationship with other participants. The chapters were divided based on the characteristics of each poem and investigate meanings generated by the combination of features of a manners and customs poem, such as ambiguity of geographic space, the observational narrative and the invisible voice. In the second chapter, the ambiguity of geographic space becomes clear from the scene depicting manners and customs, where it also becomes obvious that such space exists in memories, rather than in reality. In the third chapter, it is revealed how the objective narrative and its invisible voice encourage participation and enhance solidarity of the community through its manners and customs. In the fourth chapter the variation of consciousness of narrators, who repeatedly have parties and come back to everyday life, is examined based on the "Namsadang" poetry.