김기림 시의 리듬 분석 －문명의 ‘속도’의 구현 양상을 중심으로－

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the detailed aspect of poetic rhythm in Kim Ki-rim’s poetical works, The custom of the Sun and The whether chart. As everyone knows, ‘Speed’ is important in his poetry. He looked for the essence of modern civilization on ‘speed’, which is closely connected with Marinetti’s futurism. It’s fair that the thought for poetry to embody modern speed in content and form is derived from this. That is, he thought that a turn of speed lies at the heart of new civilization, and this speed of civilization is reflected in the rhythms of everyday conversation. The aspects of speed embodied in his poetry are divided into three. Firstly, ‘Formalism’ expresses a rhythm by “a line arrangement of letters”. But this experiment of forms appears restrictively. This shows that his search to the speed of civilization is not a description of form in a visual layer. Here We know that the iconicity of language can be counted as a poetic rhythm only when connected by sound layer of poetic language. Secondly, ‘the rhythm of breath’ as a auditory layer of language means a rhythm produced by “the cut and succession of sound”. Considering pauses and cadences of lines, ‘the rhythm of breath’ of his poetry takes irregular aspects. This shows that his poetry has come close to “a free rhythm”. Thirdly, he named a tempo of modern civilization as “the flight of association”. It means the speed produced by a fast development of images. “The flight of association” in his poetry are divided two aspects, a enumeration of place nouns and a repetition of verbs. The formal makes a rhythm from a enumeration of equal words, the latter from a repetition of same phrases. These two are principles penetrating his early poetry. From this we know that a poetic rhythm is formed by a interaction of sound, structure and meaning of poetry. Analyzing of a poetic rhythm in his early poetry, we feel out on a possibility of ‘free rhythm’ and ‘prose rhythm’ in modern poetry. We also find out a possibility to reject the dualism of verse and prose, poetic language and everyday language.