윤동주 시의 ‘슬픈 天命’과 자기실현 -일본체류기간의 시와 행적을 중심으로-

Abstract

This treaties has been dedicated to analyze Dong-Ju Yun's poems during his stay in Japan with focusing on their relations to his former poems in Korea, and to illuminate by tracing his deeds with focusing on his biographic facts. The weight sensations of his five poems as a student of Rikkyo University in Japan were quite capable of them of his poems that was written before studying aborad. In the five poems whose mature senses perceived secret movements of things and world, he seemed an owner of higher esprit who freed himself from restraints of all shadows in his consciousness of the heavenly mandate, as well as a poet who endured his pain of waiting for that mandate in a dilemma. When his existence was in a danger, he eventually assumed a world in which his ardently desirable 'hopes and loves' would be realized by expelling the darkness with his 'lamplight,' placing himself in the correct position, and overcoming conflicts among his different selves that competitively sought for that mandate. During his studying at Doshisha University in Japan, he tried to advance the date when his 'lamplight' would flash on again by his concrete practices based on national consciousness, but the walls of reality struck him dead in the inside of a jail in Japan. During the days just before he was dead, he seemed to depend on the Christian faith from his childish days. He was to accept the heavenly mandate by sympathizing deeply and secretly with Jesus in the New Testament and flowing his inner bloods as blossoms above the higher esprit. The blossoms that he made open in the dark land are still at their best. Rarely in Korean poetry, Dong-Ju Yun has shown a beautiful poetic model that had accomplished his personal, national, and timely missions by reconciling the purity of human universal conscience and the consistent Christian faith harmoniously into his inner world.