이동주 시의 ‘전통(傳統)’ 연구

Abstract

Lee Dong-ju is a representative poet following the pulse of traditional lyric poetry in the 1950s, an era of chaos and ruin. The characteristic of his poetry, which he left 165 poems, carries on the legacy of the native lyric in a way that shows the local lyricism based on Korea's traditional sentiment. Korean poetry of the 1950s was formed around two counterveiling axes of past disconnection and denial (in modernism) and past positivity and succession (traditional lyric poetry) to establish a new literary identity amid an orphan consciousness abandoned in the 'Square of Ruins and Chaos', which can be seen as a poetic response method toward reconstruction and restoration of Ruins. Therefore, this study looked at what the "tradition" that Lee Dong-ju who carried on the legacy of traditional lyric poetry, tried to restore/reconstruct in ruins and how it was restored/reconstructed, in three parts: "Discovery of the Traditional World," "A Tradition in a close-range view" and "A Tradition in a distant view." This is not only a way to establish the position of Lee Dong-ju, who left a big stroke that connects the pulse of traditional lyric poetry in the 1950s' history of poetry and literature, but also to illuminate Lee Dong-Ju's poetic world in a whole and tridimensionally.