김기림 시와 시론의 근대성 연구

Abstract

This essay intends to examine the modern characteristics in the poems of Kim Ki-rim. Through this study, I will illustrate how the poetic subjects of his poems are reacting against the modernity and the contradiction of modernity and its crisis in a diachronic perspective. The modernity as a main topic in this study is the key concept to understand the poetry of modernism which were presented in various styles. This study tries to examine the poetry of modernism, being based on the concept of ‘double-sided modernity’ which contains two different aspects of ‘desire for the modern’ and ‘disillusion of the modern.’ Kim Ki-rim tried to take ‘metaphor of similarity.’ Excluding the vocabularies selected from the traditional paradigm, he began to use tropological expressions from the new paradigm of the vocabularies of urban civilization. He tried to transfer the pre-modern tenor into the modern vehicle through the homogeous effect. The optimistic intention for the modern is presented through the logic of metaphor which assimilates everything. However, the vehicles in his poems look novel but crude and abstract. The poetic subject in Kim Ki-rim's poems looks like an integrated and stable subject. The subject who is not self-reflective but active frequently emerges in his poems, dreaming of the utopia as western civilization and the unceasing quest for the outer world, not the inner world. The texts composed by this subject mostly seek for the poetics of reconciliation. The poetic subject tries to identify himself with the western modernity and for this, he integrates the objects through the metaphorical indentification. The subject does not show a thinking of self-negation. The texts produced by this subject have an unitary voice or split voices which are finally converged into one voice, performing a declarative and instructive discourse.