윤동주 시의 상징과 시적 육체

Abstract

Main symbols of Yun Dong-Ju's poetry which I am about to analyze show well the road from a common body to a poetic body. In 「Self-portrait(自畵像)」, introvert speaker of the poet had been left in the virtual world of well by means of the memory of the speaker in the repetitive process of leaving and returning. At the same time, the virtual world of well had been engraved in the speaker. Endeavors for the sublation(Aufheben) of the self were seen in 「Another hometown(또다른 故鄕)」. In this poem, 'skeleton' was the process which the speaker sublates the self in the reality principle, and was the fruits of the process. Yun Dong-Ju strengthened his final volition before visiting Japan in March 1942. In 「Liver(肝)」, masochistic pose such as Prometheus' one showed extrovert attitude in the formative process of poetic body. In 「Confessions(懺悔錄)」, the existential introspection of speaker of the poem was a kind of extrovert attitude. The speaker of 「Confessions」 who'd like to look at the twinkling stars of good old days started to introspect existentially as soon as the stars had fallen from the heaven. 'A star passed by wind' of 「Prelude(序詩)」 have the same meaning with 'meteorite' of 「Confessions」. In a series of poems which had been written in Japan Yun Dong-Ju worried about his self-identity as a poet. This worry is observed well in 「Poem written easily(쉽게 씌어진 詩)」. But Yun Don-Ju ought to die young in the prison of Japanese imperialist at the age of 29 just before Liberation Day of Korea, and he couldn't realize his dream of poet.