박세영 시에 나타난 자연의 양상과 현실 인식

Abstract

Park, Se-young is a KAPF poet who defected to the North Korea. This study is contemplating the Park, Se-young’s poetic world focused on the ‘The Nature’ during the period of Japanese occupation. He is well known as the biased ideological poet only with that he is a socialist poet. His poetic world transforms significantly with the subject matter of ‘The Nature.’ Thus, Park, Se-young can be reappraised who build the various poetic world than as he has been well known for. In his poetic world, ‘The Nature’ develops into two main streams, the recognition of reality and the outside of the reality. His awareness of a reality develops subjectively in the First Period. Most of his poems that describe ‘The Nature’ from the outside of the reality, the poetic tensions are relaxed since he is only expressing the grief and sadness. In the Second Period, he created the works with the class-consciousness as he focused on the farmland based on his agricultural experience. In these works, the recognition of a reality is developed with the contrast with richness that is symbolized as the autumn and the exploitation of farmers. Therefore, ‘The Nature’ is used for the devices that criticize the irrationality of the society. ‘The Nature’ is also can be interpreted as the dynamics of the Spring in his works based on his future-oriented mind. The poems at this period show the awe and the serious consideration to ‘The Nature’ which connect to the Third Period. He expressed ‘The Nature’ as the reflection of the strike-consciousness in the third period due to the suppression of the freedom of expression. During this periods, he recognized the gap between the ideal and real world in anguish over the self-perception. ‘The Nature’ is the ideal feature that the poet wanted to show his will. In addition to this, he used ‘The Nature’ as the expression of assimilation in order to overcome the period of the Japanese occupation. On the other hand, he uses ‘The Nature’ in order to express the consideration of the outside of the reality as well. This article has revealed a new aspect of Park’s poems as focusing on ‘The Nature’, the main themes of many of his poems.