1980년대 노동시의 정치성과 시적 수사

Abstract

This study aims to examine the formal aesthetic characteristics such as language and rhetoric of labor poetry in the 1980s. The discussion begins with the following question: there has been a lot of research on the mode and rhetoric of realism poetry, but formal aesthetics such as poetic language and rhetoric of persuasion in the 1980s labor poetry have not been studied in earnest. The formal aesthetics of labor poetry in the 1980s is about the politics and aesthetics of literature. Jacques Rancière found the working principle of forming a political community in the realm of sensibility. He argues that politics and aesthetics participate in the “distributing the sensible system”. The politics he speaks of is the process of distributing speech and noise, and the visible and invisible. Politics is controversial and fluid because it is constitutive and processive. The politics of literature is subversive in that reveals discord over the existing order and reconstructs the sensible system. What is important is how the labor poetry in the 1980s tried to overturn the poetic order of the time, or how it responded to the role of poetry. And it's about how to create a politics of new sensibility aesthetically. At the same time, it has an orientation to achieve politics through aesthetic performance. It is about the change of the sensible system and about the sensible rearrangement of language. This is a strategy of anti-identification that denies the identification of dominant literature and elite literature. This study aims to discover the politics of the distribution of the sensible from the formal aesthetic characteristics of labor poetry. This can be discussed in terms of the language of ‘orality’ and the allegory of ‘body’. Orality resists the textuality for reading. To the labor poet, real poetry is a poem that tells the life of labor, a poem that tells the sensibility and language of workers, and a poem that directly reproduces the voice of the labor field. The orality of labor poetry emphasizes the fieldness of labor and plays the role of directly persuades readers to empathize and participate. On the one hand, the body is a unique and unrivaled image in the 1980's labor poetry. This is a major allegory showing the power of workers and the value of labor. The ‘body’ of labor poetry contrasts with the intelligence of modernism or the sensibility of lyric poetry. The study of formal aesthetics on labor poetry in the 1980s is still in its beginning stages. It only looks at the theme or the significance of the times, while not looking closely at the popularity of poetry, popular rhetoric and expression, effects and emotions.