衛生의 근대와 生命派：서정주와 오장환의 시

Abstract

This article analyzed the relationship between Sur Jeong-Ju(徐廷柱), Oh Jang-hwan(吳章煥)'s poetry of late 1930's and the Japanese imperialism's sanitary policy in Korea(Chosun). The sanitary system to rule the colonized Korea effectively had already established in 1905～10. The government-general's sanitary authorities imposed the duties of cleanness for modern civilization and enlightenment, but in fact it was the disguised rule strategy to surveil, control, discipline and punish Korean people's everyday lives and bodies. Sur Jeong-Ju's poetry researched on the body and vitality of a human being. His poetry of late 1930's expressed the wild vitality of useless body(a vagabond) and physically handicapped body(a leper), and it means that his poetry denied the forced sanitary life's value and standard. In 「a self-portrait(自畵像)」, the speaker not repented his own life was a vagabond, and showed his own unsanitary wandering life had actually the wild vitality by using 'a sick male-dog' metaphor. And further, 「a leper」, 「a summer barley(麥夏)」 were poets about a leper. In Korea from the mid-1930's, lepers had been considered 'social evils' have to be removed socially by the Japanese colonial sanitary authorities. But Sur Jeong-Ju expressed and emphasized a speaker who run into in a leper's vital residence place “a barley field.” It is means that he can feel the dynamic vitality in seceding the colonized Korea's sanitary domain. Meanwhile, Oh Jang-hwan's poetry showed questions about 'a human condition' in explorations of humanity, life, body－the poetic mottos of coterie 'Saengmyungpa(生命派)'. His early poetry of late 1930's(『a castle wall(城壁)』) were always accompanied with a critical mind about the sanitary. He had a many command of words and images which showed unsanitary states. 'The rhetoric of dirtiness' was a negative description about the decadence and corruption of modern port city, and meanwhile, it had a purpose to express realities of colonized Korean which operated in the reverse of modern civilization. Especially, No.3 of 「a capital(首府)」 presented the laboring condition and residing surrounding of colonized Korean in connection with sanitary problems. By describing the Korean were suffered under unsanitary circumstances of the dirty and disease, it disclosed hypocrisy in sanitary policy and propagation of Japanese imperialism.