권태응 동요의 생명중심주의 연구

Abstract

In 1947, Kwon Taeeung showed up in children’s literary circles in Korea, as his children’s story, 「The Little Fishes」, was published in 『The Sohaksaeng Vol. 45』which was led by Yoon Seokjung. Since then, Kwon Taeeung left a significant mark in history of nursery rhyme in the liberation period through creative activities. However, as was mentioned by Yoon Seokjung, Kwon Taeeung was not noted for a while, because children’s literary circles in Korea disparaged poets who only wrote nursery rhyme. After Changbi Publishers published his collection of children’s songs in 1995, 「Potato flowers」, researches on his nursery rhyme have been expanded. It is very encouraging situation. However, the researches focused on the life of rural children and nationalism don’t take a view of outlook on nursery rhyme of Kwon Taeeung. Kwon Taeeung who had tuberculosis for a long time wrote about the life of natures, enjoying his time in nature and innocence of childhood. Like this, this paper defines understanding of world focused on life as life-centered ideology. Life-centered ideology of Kwon Taeeung has two directions. First was ‘the aim for nature’. 「Potato flowers」, one of Kwon Taeeung’s major works, shows his view of nature. For Kwon Taeeung, the nature is ‘self-generated’ to the letter(自然). The fact that ‘Purple potato is from flower of purple color’ and ‘white potato is from flower of white color’ can’t be proved scientifically. It just happens. Just happening not occur by external influences, but it exist on its own. His view of nature is inherent in traditional idea of the orient. Orient view of nature which recognizes that all living things exist on their own also recognizes that relationship among all things in natures is understood under the natural rhythm. It’s natural for Kwon Taeeung’s life-centered ideology to pursue natures under this awareness. The aim for nature appears as exploration, activity of life and circularity toward origin of life in nursery rhyme of Kwon Taeeung. The second is coexistence. If nature is massive living things which embrace all things, it is unnecessary to classify living and nonliving things. Coexistence based on life-centered ideology is realized under the innocence of childhood through aim for the community and hylozoism in nursery rhyme of Kwon Taeeung. Therefore, life-centered ideology which appears in nursery rhyme of Kwon Taeeung is quite post-modern. In the liberation period when Kwon Taeeung started to write nursery rhyme, an economic invasion of capitalism became conspicuous. At that time, exploitation and development was serious, targeting the nature under the anthropocentricism. As a result, imperialism as violent state appeared and Joseon became scapegoats in imperialism. At that time, it was appropriate for Kwon Taeeung to pay attention to nursery rhyme, because animistic world of children has character of post-modern. So, research on life-centered ideology of children’s song of Kwon Taeeung can be opportunity to comprehensively understand the views of awareness of life, Korean racial characteristics and innocence of childhood which appear in his children’s song.