정지용 번역 연구(1) : 정지용 초기 시 번역의 특징 - 정지용의 타고르(R. Tagore)와 블레이크(W. Blake) 시 번역을 중심으로

Abstract

This study is to explain the meaning of Jeong Ji-yong's translation in his literature in three major ways. First, I will show the influence of R. tagore and W. Black on Jeong Ji-Yong's poetry as considering special references of his early translated poems. Second, I deal with the stories of Greek mythology, translated by Jeong Ji-Yong when he was in high school(1923). These myths were undergoing poetic transformation and becoming his poems. In this process, I will look at how ancient mythical images are used as poetic motifs and analyze Jeong Ji-yong's interests in the myths. Third, I will analyze the relationship between Jeong Ji-yong's translation experience and Catholicism. This paper is the first research. At present Jeong Ji Yong’s poems are about 175, excluding the poems written by Japanese. Translated poems are about 50, therefore these poems must be regarded importantly. Nevertheless, it is difficult to say that Jeong Ji-Yong’s translation is still sufficiently studied in his literature research. However, if giving significant meaning to Jeong Ji-yong's translation, we are able to advance the beginning of his literature. In this study, I divide Jung Ji-yong's translation activities into three periods, the earliest period included the translation work of R. Tagore and W. Blake. Before Jeong Ji-yong published his poems in Hakjo(學潮) in 1926, he translated and published nine of Tagore's poems which were selected and reconstructed while he was in High School Whimoon. After entering Doshisha University's, department of English Literature, he not only wrote his thesis with William Blake, but also translated and published several poems of Blake's works. These two poems showed romanticity and a mystical divinity in common. The relationship between the two is also secured through the words of Yeats, who wrote the preface to GITANJALI. In Chapter 2, I analyze the references of Tagore and Blake and the reasons why Jeong Ji-yong selected these poets. In Chapter 3, I look for Jeong Ji-Yong's intention in the poem translation. For Jeong Ji-yong, translation was to go beyond translating meaning at the level of the literal translation, and to create a work that was aesthetically complete in itself. We can find not only Jeong Ji-yong's subjective yet bold appropriation of poetic images but also the way he changes the poetic atmosphere with familiar images and words. This paper shows the contents through comparison and contrast between the original text and the translated text. As a result, empirically revealed the impact of translation revealed in Jeong Ji-yong's work.