시문학파의 아일랜드 시 번역의 특징과 의미 연구

Abstract

The purposes of this study are to examine the characteristics of Irish poems translated by members in the Si-mun-hak-pa coterie and figure out literary implications connoted in them. The study thus set out to demonstrate that Si-mun-hak-pa's translation of Irish poems was part of a process in their poetic exploration to assess the possibilities of colonial literature as world literature and also their literary acts to express their colonial emotions about the reality those days. In the process of Si-mun-hak-pa accepting Western poems, mainly the ones in the line of romanticism, Irish poetry attracted attention as a special case of exhibiting the "uniqueness of colonial literature" not found in other Western poems. Recognized in the world literary circles, Irish poetry became an especially important model for Si-mun-hak-pa that explored a direction for Joseon poetry between two literary agenda, "leap toward world literature" and "inquiry into the identity of colonial literature." Si-mun-hak-pa clearly showed their literary route they would try to pursue by taking a dual attitude when translating poems by Yeats and other Irish poets. While Yeats' poems translated by them were lyric poems that did not depict colonial sentiments directly, the ones by Thomas Moore, James Stephens, and Patrick Henry Pearse presented the perceptions of reality in their colonized nation. Their selective translation of Yeats' lyric poems was related to the poetic status of the poet that wrote lyric poems of high aesthetic completion level even in colonial situations and thus had his poems recognized for their universality as part of world literature. Si-mun-hak-pa translated his lyric poems recognized in the world literary circles intensively, thus making the possibilities of "pure poetry" concrete even in the reality of their colonized land and solidifying their literary route toward "lyric poetry." In addition, they translated Irish poems depicting colonial agony, revealing the awareness of the times in a colony. Si-mun-hak-pa's translation of Irish poetry in the 1930s can be discussed for its meanings as a poetic exploration about world literature and expression of colonial poetic emotions from the perspective of literary history.