주요한(朱耀翰) 시조에 나타난 모더니티

Abstract

Ju, Yo-han, the first poet of the Korean modern Free Verse, became interested in the development of the national literature based on ‘Chosunism’, after March First Independence Movement. He advocated the Campaign for New Poetry, which aimed to develop folk songs and popular narrative poetries into the national literature. He finally focused on the creation of Sijo poems, after the Sijo Revival Movement. Turning to traditional poetry, his later poetry world was rated as an anti-modern retrograde. The Campaign for New Poetry and the Sijo Revival Movement were contemporary-oriented literary movements that preserved and inherited Korean literature itself from foreign influences. These movements had recognized special characteristics of the fork literature as the universality of world literature. Therefore, the creation of Sijo by Ju, Yo-han was aimed at building Korean own folk literature rather than imitating foreign literature. Though some his Sijo poems that advocated modernism have been appreciated to be well embodied in poetic aesthetics, most works were criticized for their poor poetic perfection compared to his previous Free Verses. If Ju Yo-han, a greatest modernist in that time, had broken away from the obsession of folk literature and revealed his modern being in his works, he might have achieved a “national literature that contained the spirit of that time and new emotions.”