허수경의 시에 나타난 고고학적 상상력의 시적 언어

Abstract

In Heo Soo-kyeong’s poetry, the poetic language of archaeological imagination becomes an apparently distinguished characteristic from the works of other poets. This is a distinct poetic language pattern formed by Heo Soo-kyeong’s experience as an archaeologist and her identity as female and lyrical poet. First, Heo Soo-kyeong presents works of symbolic language styles with linear, rational, and objective characteristics. This is an aspect of poetic language of archaeological imagination revealed in the process of her direct experience of excavation sites as an archaeologist and literature research in the library or in her daily life. On the other hand, Heo Soo-kyeong simultaneously shows works of semiotic language styles with circular, sentimental, and subjective characteristics. This is the way of embodying subjective perception or sentimental atmosphere derived from archaeological experience in the work. Poetic language in this way lyrically expresses rejection of war and violence, which is a huge discourse, to acquire poetic aesthetics, or reproduces sentiment of nihilism revealed from a circular view of time. These mixed poetic language aspect of archaeological imagniation can eventually be seen as Heo Soo-kyeong’s endeavor to become a ‘liberated person’ by embodying free form of poetic language, not belonging to any one area. Furthermore, this is a language style that Heo Soo-kyeong chose to reveal herself most in the course of exploring the subject as an archaeologist and a poet, an effort called ‘impossible dialectic’, and can be seen as a result of her choice to engage herself in ‘eternal alienation’ between maternal ecstasy and paternal power.