金一葉의 불교시 고찰을 위한 敍說

Abstract

Kim, Il- Yeop(1896~1971) had pioneered social activity as a new woman and a poet at the period of Enlightenment and later she embraced Buddhism and devoted herself to asceticism as Zen monk until she passed away. Before she had entered Buddhist priesthood, she performed creative activity of various genres such as poem, novel, essay and editorials and after entering Buddhist priesthood she left a significant mark in history of literature and Buddhist history for leaving Odosong(Song of enlightenment) and Buddhist writings for propagation. Even though great many literary work of Kim Il Yup was published in book form such as collection of complete works, poems, essays and many articles about it were published in the newspaper and magazine as well, but her vision as Zen monk and value of literary history seemed not properly valued because all the articles were focused on her dramatic life and unique career as monk. A study on Kim, Il- Yeop has been so far was mostly addressed along with modern women writers in 1920 and papers are also mostly about women’s liberation movement related to new woman. A study on up to 70 pieces of the her poetic literature is fairly marginal and especially poetry related to Buddhism which was the thought and the faith dominating her whole life are left unexplored. Furthermore, papers on poetic world-themed of Kim Il-Yeop are not clearly stated on exact time she entered Buddhist priesthood and total number of works and it creates confusion in research. In the beginning this paper focused on the aspect of change of her Buddhist poetry but I figured that correcting the exact time entering Buddhist priesthood and exact number of works must be a priority. Because her poetry works are basic information for study and the time entering Buddhist priesthood is important comparing her literary and ideological change to somewhere for entering Buddhist priesthood. As such the findings in this paper are as follows. First, it is stated that the time entering the Buddhist priesthood of Kim Il Yeop was 1928 or 1933 but reviewing the newspaper or magazine, the exact year she entered Buddhist priesthood was 1933. Second, her poetic work is known as 58 pieces but we found out that there are 72 poetry pieces with searching Korean history database system and referring collected edition and research paper. Of these, two poems are newly discovered. Therefore, I suggest this study takes on narrative essay for full-scale Buddhist poetry of Kim Il- Yeop.