정의홍 시의 비판적 현실인식 연구

Abstract

Jeong Eui-Hong has written poetry for 30 years since his starting literary career in 1967, until his death in 1996. Those days were an upheaval period on politics, economics, society, and culture. Jeong Eui-Hong puts criticism into his work. His poetry includes experience of reality; however, it is different with engagement poetry of those days. This study is to search the literature characteristic of Chung’s poetry which can be divided into next three characteristics. The first characteristic is that the sexual images are used frequently to express the Critical Cognition. It is because he thought literal artistry importantly that his poetry not only have criticism on the reality also create various image. Especially the sexual images appear remarkable and most of images are not affirmative or productive but pessimistic and immoral. It is because the sexual images used for the poetic filtration equipment which criticizes irrational reality. The second, there are a lot of poetic works that parody the classical literatures with the modern meaning. It shows the desire on ascent of status, the greed on wealth and power, and the explanation on freedom and love with a voice of poetic narrator by the motive of classical literature. The poet offers a satire, a wit and a catharsis by this technique of parody. The third characteristic is that the poetry of Jeong searches the injury of neglected class with modernization and industrialization in the absence of the traditional consciousness. The past time of Jeong, is appeared traditional consciousness that he experienced in youth. The traditional consciousness in the poetry of Jeong Eui-Hong, starts from reminding memory of youth. In his poetry, the reality of rural district is described not as the warmhearted hometown which has been experienced on youth, but as the ruined space with modernization and industrialization.