정지용 산수시에서 자연과 정신의 감각적 매개 양상 -'차다'라는 신체 감각을 중심으로

Abstract

Against a position that views nature in Jiyong's 'Mountain-Water poetry' as a mere landscape, this paper examines specific various modes in which sense intermediates between nature and spirit. On the basis of the comparative interpretation on Jiyong's three poems, "Breakfast", "Spring snow", and "Rain", this paper brings out the different modes in which nature is related to the spirit, according as the speaker keeps his distance from landscape. As a result of this analysis, it is explained that Jiyong's 'Mountain-Water poetry' accomplishes its spirituality with sense on the particular principle. In "Breakfast", "Spring snow", and "Rain", all three poems are based on the spring as the time and the mountain as the space. They show symbolically Jiyong's ‘性情論’ in that the 'water'(the sound of flowing water, spring snow, and rain in each) excites spirituality that intermediates between the nature and a human being. First, in "Breakfast" and "Spring snow", the coldness of water is a sense that intermediates between the nature and the speaker by clearing barriers between both. Jiyong would get from the coldness a mental intention to keep noble-mindedness in his heart in spite of sufferings. These poems take a strategy that accomplishes spirituality with speaker's participation, so these have an unexpected direction to get the coldness from vitality of spring. On the contrary, "Rain" has an expected direction to shift from the coldness to the vitality of spring , because it takes a strategy that accomplishes spirituality in landscape for itself with projection of sense by hidden speaker. In this poem, vitality of spring shows activity of spirits by moving of water itself without intermediation of sense. In conclusion, Jiyong's 'Mountain-Water poetry' is a field that nature interacts with spirit in consensus by intermediation of sense. Jiyong turns toward spirit not from sense, but with sense. In the poetic world of Jiyong, Modernism and Spiritualism have the one origin in common which has grown up on the same ground of Sensualism.