윤동주의 시 「간(肝)」에 나타난 ‘시적 주체’의 지평

Abstract

A horizon of poetic subject in the poem 「Liver」 can be recreated by the reading based on the structure of the text, and also unfolding between a cultural context and the stream of Yun Dong-Ju’s poetry. The poetic subject “I” in the poem 「Liver」 say to “the turtle”, “the eagle” and “the prometheus”, regarding them to second-person in the conversation. “I” am a man who escaped from the crisis of losing liver “like rabbit“ in the classical novel. The my calling guys in the poem 「Liver」 are a symbol of others that the poet was a tangent in the existential situation. According to the novel 「rabbit」 widely read that time, “the turtle” was a man who waked up the self-identity within the power structure. The symbolic meaning of the Prometheus can be known from Greece plays written in the ancient times widely read in Western society, Chae Man-shik’s play of 「The Memorial Day」, and Kim Oh-sung’s thesis 「The conflict between The age and The intelligence」 a series over the sixth inning in the Chosun Ilbo. In the 6 stanza in this poem, Section 18 in 「St. Matthew’s Gospel」 and the myth 「Prometheus」 are combined in the flowing of context. In the 3 stanza in this poem, “the Eagle” is symbol of poet’s inner wisdom. The period division in the deployment process of Yun Dong-Ju’s poetry are greatly divided before admissions of entrance in the Yeon-Hee University, after entrance, and the time of studying in Japanese University. the self-world formed in Christianity and childhood experience perpetuates poetic pursuit. The poet opens his eyes in a invisibility that is Transparent appearing and disappeared in the visibility. The poem 「Liver」 is a speech-act formed in the deployment process of Yun Dong-Ju’s poetry. At that time, intellectuals forced the people of the rustic life to receive their perceived world in the name of enlightenment. ‘The innocence of childhood’ that he pursued during his lifetime, is a priori horizons that humans must keep it as a treasure. The poetic subject in the he poem 「Liver」 seems to unfold visibility in the poetic horizons through the voice that condemn Prometheus. At same time, a invisibility in the poetic horizon that the voice sounds, manifests defending the people that was alienated from public discourse.