이혜숙[李蕙淑] 시의 여성의식 고찰

Abstract

This paper searches the brief history of Lee Hye Sook's life, who was an only woman poet of the Peasant Group poets in the 1930s, and examines 'femininity' in her poems. First, she was born at Yeoju, Gyeonggi-do in 1910, graduated from an elementary school, and married Im Yeon who was a poet and taught literature to her. In 1935, she won the prize of The Dong-A Ilbo literary spring contest and formed her poetic world based on the Cheondogyo thought. She represented femininity through her works of Cheondogyo poetry, peasant poetry, love poetry, and lyric poetry. Second, in 'Cheondogyo poetry', a sort of religious literature including the Cheondogyo thought, she represented 'femininity as a mother' and 'the consciousness for the emancipation of women', resisting subordinate relationship between man and woman. This poetic themes were formed from the Cheondogyo thought. Third, her peasant poetry revealed the characteristic of the enlightenment literature and represented the life of woman peasants. She focused the consciousness on 'productivity of woman', which resulted from recognizing both peasants and women as the same alienated classes. Fourth, her love poetry dealt with ardent yearning for her husband and expressed traditional 'obedient woman's consciousness'. They resulted from the special relationship to her husband and the teachings of Cheondogyo. And the love poetry as a pure lyric one showed woman's delicate emotion. Lee Hye Suk's poetic world is a structure being supported by two pillars, the Cheondogyo thought and femininity. It means that she always looked at the world through the lens of femininity and at the same time, wrote her poems with the Cheondogyo thought.