해방 이후의 이찬의 시 세계

Abstract

This article reviewed the poetic world of Lee Chan after Independence from Japan, which has not been studied enough. In other words, it is to identify where is the root of his poetic world. It is to identify the difference between South and North literature (the orientation of North Korean Literature) as well as to identify the sense of literature and to draw a topographic map of a writer. Additionally, it will make us prepared for the history of literature of reunification by reviewing heterogeneity of North and South Korean literatures. If categorizing the poems of Lee Chan after Independence, they can be classified as poems dealing with the joy of independence, praise of Kim Ilsung, comradeship with Soviet Union, wrath at Japan and US and the ones encouraging labor according to Land Reform. Literature and Art in North Korea is a tool to educate the public as communist citizens, and revolutionize and classify the society. A writer is no more than ‘a technician to reform human will.’ In North Korea, literal activities are deemed same as political activities. For literature is the tool to propaganda the ideology of the system maintenance and move people as they want. Lee Chan is the writer who followed the strategical guidelines of the Party faithfully that proposed the themes and contents of the creation as the task of the era and implemented them in his poems. He lived a life adapting himself to the system. He did not have a sense of literature that a writer should have, so to speak, he did not reflect the objective reality and actuality in his works.