김종한 시에 나타난 전쟁의 수사와 경계인의 자의식

Abstract

In this article, I tried to make a precise reading of two poems of Kim Jong Han who was a typical pro－Japanese poet in the late period of Japanese imperialism. Significant portion of attention was laid on “Salgukkotcheoreom(살구꽃처럼)”, “Hanggongaega(航空哀歌(歸還抄))” which were relatively well－known. These are typical works which are wellknown than others by him who crossed the aisle from the pure poetry to pro －Japanese poetry. These two works were written in 1940. Thereabout, in Japan, fascist regime was being reinforced, and Kim as an colonial intellectual had to establish his attitude to reality. In “Salgukkotcheoreom(살구꽃처럼)”, poetic speaker expressed his melancholy and agony by overlapping the natural situation of apricot blossoms and the social situation of war. As apricot blossoms which were merely poetic background was connected to hometown in late part of the work, he recovered stability to some degree. However, in “Hanggongaega(航空哀歌(歸還抄))” which was written after more than a few months, the melancholy and agony before appeared vanished more or less and it seemed that he made up his mind to take part in reality. The poetic speaker of that work was set up as a fictional fighter pilot and he shows his resolution to burn his youth for his mother in the sky. Through a review of these two works, we can find that the structure of his works are not a simple structure and establish the foundation to reconsider the status of his poetry in the Gungminmunhak(國民文學) in the late period of Japanese imperialism.