다석 유영모의 ‘생명’ 사상과 남궁벽의 ‘감응’의 시학

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to examine the ‘life’ recognition, which can be seen in the poetry of Namgung Byeok in the 1920s, according to the relevance of Yoo Young-mo’s ‘life’ idea and to reveal the poetry of ‘resonance’ that penetrates his poetry world. Until now, Namgung Byeok’s literature has been praised for its efforts to pursue a bright and healthy world that is represented as ‘natural’ unlike contemporary writers who have been dormant in the art world of individuals based on decadence and romanticism. In particular, previous studies have evaluated that he was able to show a nature-friendly tendency by accepting anarchism through his exchange with Yanagi Muneyoshi. Furthermore, this article sought to shed a three-dimensional light on the ideological character contained in his literature by raising Yoo Young-mo’s idea of ‘life’ as another possibility that Namgung Byeok could have sprouted up ‘life’ recognition. With christianity and Osan school as the medium, Namgung Byeok was able to resonate with Yoo Young-mo’s idea of ‘life’ and realize the cosmic vitality that fluctuated inside the individual. Through this, he sought to criticize the logic of the civilized world, as Yoo Young-mo criticized the logic of the survival competition that dominates the civilized world, which fragmented and uniformed the individual. As such, Namgung Byeok was able to develop a spirit of criticism of civilization by encountering contemporary ‘life’ ideas, and unlike Yoo Young-mo’s claim of the spiritual value of ‘life’ through ‘labor’, he sought to advocate solidarity of ‘life’ through emotional consensus. This has been embodied in his poem as a poetry of ‘resonance’ that evokes compassion and sympathy for his fragile existence. In this regard, Namgung Byeok’s poetry is meaningful in that it shows a unique ideological character that cannot be judged by the 1920s korean poetry as ‘aesthetic modernity’.