해창 송기식의 문학관과 시세계

Abstract

Hae-chang(海窓) Song Ki-sik(宋基植) is a Confucian intellectual of the patriotic enlightenment period who struggled to cope with the Westtern powers and transform the reality through Confucianism. Therefore, he is more of a thinker than a writer. He emphasized the meaning of the texts that had been hidden in the absolute status of the scriptures, and argued for the theory that philosophy should be built on realistic constraints. And he insisted on reading the books that the times needed most, and on creating literature that could lead to a new civilization. His reason was based on a sense of crisis and civilization that he should actively transform in the face of the global maritime era without exception. Therefore, his poems show Confucian intellectuals agonizing over the conflicting, antagonism, and co-existence of tradition and newspaper names. However, as the period coincides with the national crisis in which national sovereignty is robbed, the struggle character of thinkers based on anti-Japanese and nationalist spirit is relatively stronger than the anxiety sentiment of the existent. Hae-chang sensed a change in the global paradigm by looking at the world changing every minute, and bitterly reflected on himself, wary of regressing to a book scholar who ran counter to the trend of the times. The anti-Japanese movement and the new perception of history for the base people are a result of that bitter reflection. From the above-mentioned ideas and educational activities that have penetrated his life, Hae-chang's worries, conflicts, and various patterns and texture of emotions are all intertwined in his poetry world.