구상 시에 나타난 가톨리시즘적 일원론

Abstract

Poet Ku Sang was born in Seoul in 1919 and died in 2004. As a poet, educator, and journalist, he left a distinctive literary achievement on Korean contemporary poetry through poetic thought based on Catholicism, metaphysical ontology, and poetic variation of practicing humanity. While scholarly approaches to Ku Sang’s poetic world have been meager, recent research trends have generally focused on structuralism or post-structuralism analyses of his works by following the internal methodology of literary theory or on his ethical consciousness and Catholic worldview. There have also been individual approaches to notable serial poems, such as Serious Slip of Pen, 『Eunghyang』, 「The River of Christ Paul」, 「Diary of the Fields」, etc. This research trend leaves insufficiency from three perspectives. First, it fails to synthesize Ku Sang's poetry view from a theory of work. Second, it fails to dimensionalize his life as a poet, educator, and journalist born during the Japanese colonial period and lived through the twists and turns of modern Korean history, including the Korean War, the May 16 coup, etc, from an authorial perspective. Third, it fails to organize Catholicism, which is the source of Ku Sang’s poetic thinking and all aspects of poetic practice, into a coherent poetic logic. While this paper refers to the research flow above, it focuses on Ku Sang’s poetic thought and its variations. Moving away from the partial and enumerative approach, this research organizes Ku Sang's poetic thought into a monism based on Catholicism and sees it as a will to revive through great affirmation, the intensification of monolithic ontology and solitude, and a humanity and the direction of truth. If we can deduce the boundaries of the artist's inner landscape and border of mind through this, this paper expects a work-theoric synthesis and an authorial dimensionality.