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Abstract

The early 1930s was the golden age for children’s literature reflecting the class system. Children’s novels of that time completed the ‘bridge to realism’ by pursuing typical and factual depiction of the tragic reality despite the limitation in creation. However, children’s poems expressed the feeling of anger based on the class system and many pieces of literature ‘ignored childhood sentiments’ by singing about bloody curses and hatred. For that reason, there are many negative reviews about the children’s poetry reflecting the class system. Some of those poems do imply aesthetic possibilities and they are categorized into entertaining children’s poems. The current study examined the chronology of children’s poetry on the ‘class system + entertainment.’ Entertainment is closely related to childhood sentiments. Although there were not many, those poems satisfied both the social needs of the time and children’s sentiments. In particular, Joo HyangDoo’s entertaining children’s poetry reflecting the class system is considered the best. His pieces are innovative and creative. The children had to be ‘working members’ of the society during the Japanese Colonial Rule. The class system where those ‘little workers and farmers’ confronted the ‘factory owners and landlords’ is consistently realistic. Nevertheless, the tendency to deny children’s sentiments cannot be considered positive. On the other hand, the entertaining tendency easily curved to other directions because of the weakness of modern infrastructure. An example is the tendency of children’s sentiments that is succeeded by the chronology of ‘Jjakjjaggung.’ A long time ago, Lee Oh Deok criticized the ‘spirit of entertainment’ as a concept conflicting with ‘the spirit of poetry,’ but this was a reflection of past distortions. With this fact recognized properly, it is not right to label the entertainment as being negative. Although minimal the restoration of the chronology of positive entertainment is expanding in the field of children’s literature today and considered important in regards to the aesthetics of children’s literature.