기형도 시 「안개」의 인지 의미 고찰

Abstract

This article seeks to study ‘Fog’ of Hyeong-do Ki based on the cognitive poetics methodology. The poems of Hyeong-do Ki have its central axis on a poetic world of tragedy, which is interspersed with ‘death.’ ‘fog’ occupies a unique position, in which the poetic world of Hyeong-do Ki is aggregated. ‘fog’ is a poem that is excellent to show the attitude of perceiving the era and poetic world of Hyeong-do Ki. This article does not limit understanding Hyeong-do Ki’s poem to inquiring the prior researches. Yet, it suggests that there should be the various perspectives in reading poems. Such factor may allow the cognitive poetic methodology to provide diversity to reading Hyeong-do Ki’s poems. Of course, this article is not meant to deduct a new result by analyzing Hyeong-do Ki’s poem through the cognitive poetic methodology invoked in the article. The approach of prior researches that have sought to describe the poems of Hyeong-do Ki as ‘death,’ ‘isolation,’ or ‘fantasy’ are only different variation within the process; however, all these approaches can be agreed to have a similar result regarding the thematic consciousness of the poem or the poetic world of Hyeong-do Ki. The goal of this article is to engage in a discussion which is on an extension of the existing researches on ‘fog.’ In addition, it is to suggest a possibility of various reading approaches by examining whether reading poems may differ depending on personal and periodical situations from readers’ perspective. In Chapter 2, the reading of the poem ‘fog’ is examined in readers’ perspective through the deictic shift theory. Deictic shift in this poem is formed through perceptual, temporal, spatial, relational, and textual approaches; thus, this article will trace the process of understanding ‘fog’ by exploring the inside and outside the texts through deictic shift by readers. Chapter 3 reveals that the expressions of this poem are based on conceptual metaphor and the meaning of ‘fog’ is constructed through such metaphor. In addition, this article explains that ‘fog’ and ‘Gongjang’ have similarity based on attributes, and that this poem expands meaning through such similarity.