‘아이’를 통해 본 정지용 시의 근대 인식 양상

Abstract

This study, paying attention to the fact that Jeong Ji-yong's works includes manychild poems, poems the speaker appears and childlike-oriented pieces of poems,attempted consideration of children of Jeong Ji-yong's poems centering around suchpieces of work. Because, when looking into Jeong Ji-yong's poems with keywordsof ‘Child’ and ‘Childlike’ , it is possible to examine the aspect in which a poet recognizesthe modern times and what poetic consciousness aims at. On the basis of perception of concepts of modern children, Jeong Ji-yong createdchildren's poems and a child speaker or poems targeting on children. That is, theexistence having enterprising spirits, works that represent children as pure and innocentexistence and works aiming at such children was revealing recognition of modernchildren. However, most of children appearing in Jeong Ji-yong's poems are children wholive in solitude and uneasiness, yearning for the past times. So to speak, escapingfrom a variety of the old-fashioned community, they are seen as children left aloneand thrown out into an unfamiliar time and space named the modern times. Suchconsciousness of severance and uneasiness sometimes indicates tragic emotion ora feeling of helplessness, taking an attitude toward waiting, with respect to loss ofsources. Through the shape of such children, Jeong Ji-yong can look into the conditionof realizing the modern times of severance and uneasiness. But, Jeong Ji-yong's poems do not reveal a desire to revert to the past on thebasis of such emotion, but moves toward accepting the present situation separatedfrom the past times. Examining this with keyword named children, such an aspectshows as curiosity. Such an appearance could be seen through a child speaker inchildren's poems or a child's eyes seen from adult poems. There are still appeartragic emotion on the backside of curiosity, but the poems freshly view new phenomenaand sometimes have an access to myogenicity through existence of child. Such piecesof poems can show the tendency of Jeong Ji-yong's poems accepting the presentand the future. ‘Child’ appearing in Jeong Ji-yong's poems was a product of modern discoveryand at the same time a subject of uneasiness and tragedy who was thrown intothe space and time names the modern. However, Jeong Ji-yong's child did notcompletely withdraw into that, but tried to newly recognize the present situationand aimed at the future. In such precesses, it could be possible to look into recognitionof existence within the world and recognition of existence of Jeong Ji-yong's poems.