이광수의 장시에 나타난 서사성 연구 - 「옥중호걸」, 「곰」, 「극웅행」을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study focused on the narrativity in Yi Gwangsu's poems published in the 1910s. And this study examined the changes in the narrativity in his long poems published in the 1910s. This study found that it was a transitional period to novel. Yi Gwangsu's literary career started with a poem called "Okjunghoegeol(A hero in prison)"(Jan. 1910). This poem was written to express the frustration the people felt by using a metaphor of 'A tiger in prison' to symbolize Ahn, Junggeun who killed Ito Hirobumi. His next poem, "Gom(A bear)(June 1910)", expressed the death of Ahn Junggun using a metaphor of 'A bear bleeding and dying,' which contains the meaning of freedom and restraint. His "Geukunghaeng" published in 1917 is in a more advanced form of epic poem. This study clarified the changes in the narrative style seen in the development of Okjunghogeol, Gom, and Geukunghaeng. Okjunghogeol shows the possibility of heroic narrative through the narrative structure of present-past-present using lyrical rhythm. Gom shows a more advanced narrative style by using the stream of consciousness and breaking away from the lyrical rhythm. Geukunghaeng shows the possibility of romantic epic poem that continues the line of traditional epic poems by using the characters in Dangun epic poem and the structure of Mongja type novels, in which dream is an important element. The narrativity in Yi Gwangsu's poetry is the result of new experimental spirit in the poetry genre in the 1910s and his perception of reality as an intellectual living in an colonial era. Yi Gwangsu's poems are important because they have a unique narrative style that can't be found in the new style of poetry and they show the poet tried to deal with the situation in the 1910s actively. As Yi Gwangsu's poems foretold the emergence of free poems and modern epic poems in the 1920s, a point to break away from the transplanted literature theory can be found in his poems.