신석정의 중기시 연구 - 사회참여적인 시를 중심으로 -

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine intensively the special feature of the middle period poetry of Sin-sukjeung. The distinctive feature of this poetry is the coexistence of the poems in which the poet participate in the problems of the social or political affairs and the idyllic poems. The former is connected closely with the 1945 Liberation from the colonial rule of Japan and the Korean War, those very important events intensified the poet's concern in the social and political affairs of that time which found expression in such poems as The Gracier, A Flower Bed, The Four Moving Portraits, The Beacon, A History, The Poetical Note on Homecoming,etc. We find in the latter a change in the treatment of the subject which marries the idyllic element with the poet's social or historical consciousness caused by his intense sense of crisis that is the result of painful facts of the period of the 1945 Liberation and the wartime society which found expression in such poems as A Lyrical Poem, We are Distant from Thee, and In Company with the Little Sheep. But the former is more meaningful and important than the latter in the poetical world of Sin-sukjeung. It is no exaggeration to say that the important poems of the middle period of Sin-sukjeung is the product of that sense of crisis which does not submit to the desperate situation in order to look forward to hopeful future of the motherland people.