김수영 시의 ‘몸’과 그 의미

Abstract

Kim Soo-young had grown up in cultural environment where the Oriental solemnity is thoroughly kept. In such aspect, the fact that he showed profound speculation on the body is a very important matter. He represented the process of existence's being incorporated into the world and the discord during that process through the symptoms of the body. This seems to be the result of his will to seek the communication with the world. Like this, the body in his poetry actively participates in the world and has dynamic relation with others. Consequently, the body is not an extension substance nor a physical object. What Kim Soo-young shows through tiredness and pain of the body is the body as ultimate mode of existence. The body became the starting point of putting an end to modern dichotomy such as culture and nature, male and female, the West and the East, etc enlarged and reproduced on the basis of the dichotomy of the body and the soul and reading the homogeneousness and difference of all existences at the same time. This is also the starting point of overpassing the modern ages. Therefore, the body is the most ultimate place of understanding the world. The modernity and avant-garde and experimental sense of Kim Soo-young's poetry are based on the discovery and experience of the body.