김현승 시의 종말론적 사유와 상상

Abstract

This paper studies the consistent concern and transfiguration of the imagination of Kim's poetry, with the code of eschatology. Especially, we investigate the transfiguration from the viewpoint of both faith and anti-faith, in the oder of the time. In step with that, we illuminate the meaning of the solitude connected with eschatology. In the first period, poetic subject focuses on the historical eschatology. He sharply recognizes the real world as colony. He makes the eschatological vision of hope by drawing the mythical-eschatological imagination of the Bible into the cognition of the real world. In the second period, the eschatos(End) occurs in the inner space of the subject. The eschatology in this period, is the resurrection of the inner self. In the third period, the eschatos is the death without God. The body and the soul become nothing, by the death. In the last period, the poet is converted to the firm faith. In this period, the world is full of the blessing. Because the eschatos is realized not only in the inner space but also in outer world from the viewpoint of the subject.