이육사의 『중외일보』 기자 시기 언론 활동과 고향 상실의 문학적 모티프

Abstract

The newspaper reports of the Jungwae Ilbo, which reported the unprecedented flood damage in the Palgongsan Mountain area in Daegu in July 1930, are believed to have been written by Yi Yuk-sa, and provide important data for Yi Yuk-sa’s media activities and his social consciousness during that period. In that newspaper reports on flood damage, Yi Yuk-sa deeply expressed sympathy and compassion for them by mobilizing literary language to describe how painful and desperate farmers were in a desperate situation after losing their homes. It was after the mid-1930s that Yi Yuk-sa entered the path of literary creation in earnest, and the motif of loss of hometown, which was prominent in his work, was closely related to his original experience of flood damage. This suggests that the motif of loss of hometown, which stands out in Yi Yuk-sa literature, was not triggered by ideas or ideologies, but was acquired from substantive experiences. The reason why Yi Yuk-sa’s poem has deep appeal is that, as seen in the motif of loss of his hometown, the poetry is based on his experience of concrete life, not just an idea. Moreover, Yi Yuk-sa, who experienced how painful and devastating it was to lose his home due to flood damage, expressed it as a metaphor for the colonial reality under Japanese rule. Yi Yuk-sa’s poetry develops the devastated aspect of our life, persistent vitality, and strong will in the form of poetry, turning it into a force of resistance.