윤동주 시의 공간과 시의식 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to categorize spaces selected in the poetry of Yun Dong-ju and to examine world perceptions and poetic consciousness projected within them. The perceptions of people occur from detailed experiences of subjects and they believe that the emotions and memories of subjects projected onto particular spaces are connected with a poetic consciousness regarding one’s self and the world. Space is always directed towards people and detailed analyses of people are valuable in that they reveal human imagination and awareness systems that exist within. Spaces that are cut off in the poetry of Yun Dong-ju are described as spaces that are cut off from the outside, in which no one but the narrator appears. In spaces such as “a well”, “a mirror”, and “a room”, only the narrator exists and others cannot be seen. In cut-off spaces where everything is blocked off, the subject establishes the narrator who is left alone, displaying shyness and a sense of alienation. However, instead of stopping there, a thorough process of self-reflection is experienced and this leads to mental maturity. Unlike universal emotions, open spaces such as “streets”, “hills”, and “stations” do not signify freedom but induce a form of tragic awareness and a drifting consciousness of the world. This seems to result from the life of the poet and the situation of the times and acts as a reason for why the subject wanders, unable to stay in one place. Of spaces selected in the poetry of Yun Dong-ju, there are spaces in which conflicting forms of poetic consciousness are expressed according to different situations to reveal the confused universal consciousness of the subject. In other words, public spaces and private spaces become mixed and desperate perceptions and orientations towards ideal worlds regarding identical spaces merge, revealing a double consciousness. However, by passing through negative and desperate universal consciousness and revealing orientations towards spaces of reconciliation and a hopeful world, the strong will of the subject to search for “a new world” can be verified.