서정주 시의 불교적 상상력과 시적 변용

Abstract

The Buddhist imagination can be said to be the origin supporting Seo Jeongju’s poetry. He displayed the aspect which he sticked to the body and desire strongly in the early poetry, but he showed the aspect purifying these latterly. In the background of this kind of change, the emptiness mind that aims at Buddhism is situated. In that point, when it deviates from the desire, it fills 'emptying' can be said to be another starting point for the change to Seo Jeongju. Based on the emptiness, Seo Jeongju could be free from the stress of the reality and pressure and sense of inferiority and sense of shame. The spirit of Buddhism has had an effect on Seo Jeongju's poetry spirit since the first stage continuously. The libido, love of money, and desire of this world like the love of fame were the theme captivating him, and they were the element bringing the suffering. The lack and absent awareness related to the economic problem was the factor which it makes in order to secure the denture nature the power in which Seo Jeongju writes the poem. In that point, the Buddhism was the ways and means he selected to relieve and control his own desire. Seo Jeongju did not stay in the borrowing the Buddhism just, and he tried to practice in the real life adoring and searching the spirit of Buddhism. His poetics of emptiness is the product of this kind of effort. Eventually the emptiness and distance are the conclusion of the long wandering and the attempt for finding the poetic stability. However, Seo Jeongju does not believe or stick to the Buddhism blindly While he still maintains the fixed distance through putting boundary to Buddhism, and he tries to keep its own identity. As a result, in spite of intending the buddhism through his life, he could not convert to the Buddhism. His inconsistency that he could not hang his hat up anywhere and his thoughts that consider himself to be a wanderer, which they were the energy that let him write the poetry and the tragedy of the life.