한국시의 포에틱 딕션 혁신과 미적 자유 (1) ― 전영경 시집 『김산월 여사』의 비속어 수행

Abstract

In the history of modern Korean poetry, poetic diction had been used around the traditional meaning which refers to ideal vocabularies, metaphors, and styles that were thought of as properly different in poetry until the world war period. On the other hand, poets’ perceptions had been changed and eager to seek new poetic languages arose since the post-war period, and Lee Eo-ryeong, one of the great critics in Korea, began to desire innovation in poetic diction by focusing on poet Jeon Young-kyung through his critical review in Anthology of Korean Post-war Poetry. The innovation was a practice of aesthetic freedom by deconstructing and rebuilding the meaning of poetic diction, liberating daily spoken languages and registering words that had been conceptualized as non-poetic previouly into literary works. In 1950s, Jeon Young-kyung was a talented, problematic, and admirable poet, but from the same time, he was under-evaluated by only a reason for frequently using profanities in poems, so has not been noticed until now days. However, the lingual performance with vulgarism and slang was a way of intended rhetoric strategy infiltrated by dialogic subject of poems. Also it was needed for understanding and appreciating the post-war society by (un)consciously orientated holistic approach. Accordingly, I re-interpreted Jeon's lingual performance, focusing on his collection Mrs. Kim San-wol. Jeon’s diction of vulgarism and slang was a movement that sought new aesthetic tension and order reorganization through mutual infiltration into the world, and it was a form of history that allowed poetic subjects in every classes and social backgrounds being gathered to dream of a desire for freedom like an carnival with the energy of its centrifugal force. His diction was not a sign of excessive emotion or immediate desire, but an intended evil requested by the subject who had no choice but to utter it. It can be said that this was a response itself to practice the aesthetic freedom of poetry, which deviated from the binary confrontation between Korean traditional lyric poetry and modernism works of the time. In addition, it is worth paying attention to and analyzing the innovation of his poetic diction in that it has influenced many Korean modern poets, including Kim Soo-young.