박병순 시조의 고향 의식 연구

Abstract

My aim is to examine the changing pattern of hometown consciousness shown in Gureumjae Park Byeong-soon’s Sijo. First of all, the changing pattern of his poem consciousness was examined through selected poems related to the motive of hometown among Park Byeong-soon’s Sijo. This is to inform the public of the literary accomplishment of Park’s Sijo and encourage the public to be aware of the meaning of his hometown by means of exploring his hometown as well because Park Byeong-soon has been considered to be one of the best students of Garam Lee Byeong-gi who can be called “the father of modern Sijo”. As a poet and intelligent on Sijo renaissance movement and Hangeul distribution movement after Korea’s Liberarion from Japan, Park Byeong-soon was recognized because he changed the postion of modern Sijo from peripheral to central of the realm of Korean literature. To take a look at his literature world, the study of selected poems taken rooted on his hometown consciousness out of his poems written from 1956 to 1991 based on his hometown was made especially as to literary acception course and its pattern according to each period. It’s because the literature nature of some of poems related to his hometown has much to do with Zeitgeist, meaning the spirit of time and life as well. This kind of examination as to 16 works about his hometown shown in “The Anthology of Gureumjae Sijo” was thoroughly made in this study. First, his poems can be diveded into three stages such as beginning, intermediate,later stage respectively, which also was been focused on the unit year, ten, from his age 40, which changes his poetic transition pattern and theme consciousness. For example, the period(1956-1965) when he left his hometown, in his forties, can be decided to be beginning stage, mean-while, the period(1966-1975)when he took root in strange place, in his fifties, can be decided to be intermediate stage and the period(1976-1991)when he left his strange place, in his sixties, can be decided to be later stage. Based on this division, the study of his hometown consciousness was made. In his beginning poems, he described that he identified hometown when he left hometown in 1956. The hometown of developing period or pre-modern period was depicted to be hometown filled with periodic contradiction and chasm instead of space of comfort which was stemmed from the negative consciousness about developing or pre-modernism. Actually the hometown shown in his poems was construed that a sense of tradition was collapsing, being described to be poverty-stricken countryside not picturesque and pastoral space. In his poem consciousness,hometown was identified with his mother, that is, hometown was understood to be land that had a variety of lifeness like mother’s heart. In his intermediate poems(1961-1973), he left only one poem in twelve years as to his hometown. As his hometown became barren land because of his mother’s death, he depicted the image of lifeness-lost hometown. as an example, he only left a poem after his mother died. In addition, at the time when this poem was written, he wrote works most postively in the literary world and the industrialization gained momentum. In the period,he also did a couple of things such as education and writing poems, further coping with the time, doing his responsibility, not forgetting Zeitgeist or time spirit. However, the experience which he got oparated for seven years made him recognize his inner realization through the consciousness, which meant that his consciousness of poem was reflection of negative feeling about his hometown as well as reconciliation. In his later poems, it was a period when he moved from Jinan to Iksan in 1956, and to Seoul from Jeonju to Seoul in 1979. At that time he was over 60. Mostly poems at the time were written around Korean-version Thanksgiving day or Chooseok day while he was plying from Seoul and Jinan. By means of poems, he tried to tie his ancestor and his grandsons meaning ethnic background. In his later poems, through the signals between hometown and ancestor, between strange place and grandsons, actually two concepts was construed to be identified ones, ancestor and descendants were only one rooted and hometown and strange place were not devided. Therefore, in his later poems strange place and his hometown became harmonously assimilated, being enlarged a variety of meaning not one meaning. The recognition of hometown meant that hometown and strange place were co-existing concept naturally, that is, the state when hoetowm and strange place were not divided, further discovering hometown in strange place and vice versa.