백석 시에 형상화된 백색 이미지와 음양오행의 상징성 연구

Abstract

Baek Suk described the life of the Korean public during the Japanese colonial era. He aesthetically improved the value of the Korean language and also had an insight of the meaning of existence and transcendence through his poems. I judged that Baek Suk embodies his inner world, moreover the Korean public’s life and cultures through white image and that is why I decided to focus on color symbolism, especially white image of his poem in this study through Yin-Yang and Five-elements. Yin-Yang and Five-elements symbolizes one viewpoint of the Korean collective unconscious in Korean literature’s history. I created a common system of Yin-Yang and Five-elements in this study to understand Baek Suk’s poems. Through the system, I explored the origin of imagination and symbolism in white image in his poems. The symbolism of Yin-Yang and Five-elements and white image in Baek Suk’s poems are interpreted as 「The poem from white friends on dinner table」―Sharing the union of life with innocent friend, 「White birch tree」―The harmony of life on white birch tree where the place is in heart, 「Noodles」―Plain and simple white noodles, the festival of life that penetrates the Korean public’s joys and sorrows, 「Facing the white wall」―The delight of life which is overcoming lonely destiny and flying up to sky as a noble and sacred. The white image is the origin of inspiration and the motivation causing imagination for him. Baek Suk inspired himself with noble and pure energy through embodying white image in his poem and also transcending lonely destiny to sacred harmony. From a Yin-Yang and Five-elements point of view, I wish this study which explored white image in Baek Suk’s poems can extend to convergent theory of culture and art.