박목월의 어머니 시편에 나타난 모성 부재 의식과 초월적 모성의 관련 양상

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the aspects of connection between theconsciousness of mother's absence and pursuit of divine maternity appearing in ParkMok-Wol's Poetry of "Mother", in the way of analyzing the "mother" image, beingconspicuous as the dominant image in the middle-late period of his poetry. In his poetry, the mother image could be regarded as the essential one, beingthe lyric origin centered in his poetic world. But the mother image is not the onesided or simple one and the maternal-filial relation does not appear to be the formof vertical relationship, differently from the conclusion shared by most of precedentstudies. On the contrary, the mother image reveals its multiple aspects, and thematernal-filial relationship is directed to the horizontal one. The consciousness of mother's absence is conspicuous in his "Mother" poems,which is the key of understanding lyric origin centered in Mok-Wol's poetic creation. The consciousness of mother's absence seems to be derived from the experiencesof the deprivation of motherhood. The experience of deprivation of motherhooditself is the one of human conditions, but it looks like severer in Mok-Wol, becauseit is originated with the condition of the eldest son among four siblings. The densityof the wish for the maternity is correspondent to the depth of the consciousnessof mother's absence. But Mok-Wol actively convert the condition of the eldest son and the sense ofdeprivation of motherhood into 'the consciousness of the eldest son', with recognizingthe responsibility of the eldest son and accepting it, out of which the horizontalcompanionship within maternal-Filial consolidation evolves. <Song of Songs> visualizesthe wish for nostos (return) to the status of inseparable mother-son relation by theimage of Holy Mother. <A Big and Tender Hand> shows an absolute maternity inwhich the poet recovers union of mother and son, surmounting the consciousnessof mother's absence. Ultimately, the union of the three; the divine mother, the poethimself and his mother has been accomplished.