『청록집』에 나타난 이상공간 연구

Abstract

One of the most conspicuous literary outcomes in the history of Korean poetry during the liberation period is Cheongrokjip, which was published in June 1946, less than 10 months after the liberation. It is a collection of poems particularly memorable in our history of modern Korean poetry, sharing nature as a poetic place and also having complete individuality, as well as literary value. However, the discussion and evaluation of Cheongrokjip must be reconsidered, because its focus is on the liberation period and the literary historical context because it was published at that time, as well as because of the fixed view that the literary position and theory of the right-wing group’s leader, Kim Dong-Ni, was strongly reflected and generalized. In fact, the works included in Cheongrokjip were written in the dark period when Japanese colonization had reached an extreme, from the end of the 1930s until before liberation. Hence, in Cheongrokjip, the three poets' understandings of reality had been uniformly reflected, and on this foundation, one nature was discovered. The perspective is that the world view of the visual subject is projected and reality acts as a mirror for the subject to look at their own reality; furthermore, the poetical works are the pursuit of the self or outputs of the realization of the self's ideal. Considering that in Cheongrokjip the world view of each subject at the end of the Japanese colonization era had been projected, it can be observed how the three poets understood the situation of that time and, on that basis, what kind of world they had been creating.