1960년대 동시의 형식 실험

Abstract

In the 1960s, several children’s poets introduced various forms in their works the most in the history of children’s poetry in South Korea. Of those, Joe Yoo-ro is incomparable. He tried various forms in his six children's poetry books published in the 1960s. Also, he clarified the underlying philosophy and purpose in the preamble of each book. Therefore, the meaning of his works can be better understood when linked to his purpose and philosophy about creation. The narrative poems of Lee Suk Hyun are also noteworthy. Lee Suk-hyun coined his second poetry book <House of echoes> (St. Paul Publisher), published in 1966, ‘a book of the narrative poems’. Lee Suk Hyun is the representative poet of creating the narrative poems in the 1960s. He also had a clear purpose of the narrative poems as a form experiment. According to the magazines and critics of children’s literature in those days, he took the creation of narrative poems very seriously in the area of the form experiment in children’s poetry, by participating in the discourse of the narrative poems or encouraging other poets such as Park Kyung-yong to create such poems. Therefore, his narrative poems should be also analyzed considering his philosophy about creation. Because the form experiment in children’s poetry has been limitedly repeated under the assumption of ‘children as readers’, the form experiment in the 1960s still contributes to the current creation practices. The examination of the creation trend and its meaning in the 1960s, the era when the form experiment in the children’s poetry was the most radical and extensive, is not just limited to a cultural and historical restoration of a specific era or a specific poet’s individual try of creation. This is related to and expands through the pursuit of the creation experiment in children’s poetry that has been revived since the late 2000s.