김종삼 시에 나타난 시인으로서의 소명 의식 연구

Abstract

Kim, Jong-sam is a significant poet to explain the development process of Koreanpoetry in the postwar days. Although he left few poems, he had built a varietyof meanings in his poetry so he created a unique place of its own in Korean literaturehistory. Previous researchers have represented the various characteristics of his poetrybut have not provided the overall features yet. Therefore, based on these resultsand the limits, this paper attempts to explain the one characteristic that across thecharacteristics in terms of consciousness. Kim's early poem The Gardener is the key text for this paper. This poem wasthe first step to start as a poet which shows Kim's view of the world as well ashis self-consciousness. In this poem, the poet is compared to the gardener and he,as a poet, committed an original sin which are inseparable from every poet. Asa sinner, he branches three directions that are closely related to the aspects of thefruits in The Gardener ; to admire the pure world, to witness the misery of thereal world, and to connect the pure world with the real one. Even though the threedirections seem irrelevant, all of them are based on the poet's fateful sin whichhe thinks his own's, not others'. In Kim, Jong-sam's poetry, he continuously blames himself because he believeshe couldn't fulfill the mission of the poet. This paper suggests that Kim's self-blameshows Kim's vocation as a poet. As Kim kept questioning what a real poet shoulddo in the postwar days, it makes his poetry more meaningful.