정지용 시에서 자연의 미적 전유

Abstract

In the Korean literature traditionally there have been two different opinions of the recovery of the national identity and the regression to the conservatism. In this premise this study aims to look at the original aesthetics in the poetry of Chung Ji-Yong. His poetry reconstructs the embodiment of aesthetic senses and the verification of the objects to modern aesthetics. It is true that the ways in which he pursues in using the aesthetic meanings of the nature newly sensualize, objectify and internalize as well as succeed to the tradition of the Korean poetry. It means to look for 'harmony' disappeared in the living that he was looking for the nature in his later works. It's because the standard of harmony is nature. He tried to construct traditional poetry on the nature in the more modern aesthetic ways when he looked at the harmonizing process between the nature and the soul. This kind of 'sensualization' and 'the pursuit of the will' is the tradition he has newly built. The tradition includes the total of things accumulated from the past and is the continuity of creativity which has to be formulated continuously. It is the discovery of new scenery that he tried to find 'soul' and 'sense' in itself by bringing traditional nature to the poetic objects. The political power of his poetry contains 'the use of aesthetic meanings' of the tradition and the nature. The new individuation of the heritage is revolutionary in his poetry. When we presume that the language of the poetry is not inactive but moving and progressing continuously and it continuously attributes the new forms of expression to the objects, it can be said that his poetry has led the traditional self to the new horizon. It comes from the fact that it has proceeded the reciprocal relationship between the object and the world and finally has pursued for the self identity in the purpose of finding the balance of the life and the problem of soul.