신동문 시 연구 -현대사회의 폭력성과 ‘행동’으로서의 문학이라는 문제를 중심으로

Abstract

Although Shin Dong-moon is an important ‘postwar’ poet, his evaluation is somewhat divided into extremes. This is also confirmed by the fact that many of the preceding studies selectively illuminate one of the literature of the 1950s and the literature of the 1960s. In order to overcome this selective judgment, this study attempted to examine his literature from a dual perspective of continuity and difference. The most important thing in Shin Dong-moon’s 1950s poetry is the experience of war. He experienced war as a soldier, but had a special history of spending most of his time in hospital. In addition, he served as an air force in Jeju Island and Sacheon for the rest of the year. His mission was to fly balloons as a weatherman. Because of this experience, war is remembered as a time to fly balloons to him. In particular, it is very important for him to understand “war” as violence that suppresses an individual’s personality, not terrible collective murder or madness resulting from revenge feelings toward the enemy. This is because he recognized ‘war’ as an opportunity to reveal the violence of modern society by considering it as an essential characteristic of modern society. Meanwhile, since 1960, Shin Dong-moon has intensively written the so-called ‘engagement poetry’. If poetry in the 1950s showed a highly speculative and internal tendency by starting with the sense of existential problem, there is relatively no sign of innerness in this period, which was written to resist the violent political reality of the 1960s, represented by ‘4․19’ and ‘5․16’. This characteristic, different from poetry in the 1950s, eventually led to him being locked up in a fence called ‘engagement poetry’. However, in this paper, the difference was reinterpreted from the perspective of ‘language’ and ‘body’ responses to the world, revealing that the entire world of Shin Dong-moon’s poetry can be read from a continuous perspective. For Shin Dong-moon, the problem of “individual” has changed somewhat to “life” since 1960, but “response,” “resistance” and “engagement” were another names given to the same act of confirming their “existence” for “world.”