『어린이』에 실린 어린이 ‘동요’ 연구 -류지영의 동요 이론에 대한 비판적 접근-

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze children’s songs in the Boys and Girls Magazine Children. At that time, children’s songs written by Children’s readers were usually formal poems with the 4⋅4 and 7⋅5 rhythms. Why did Korean children in the early modern period begin to write ‘formal poems’ rather than ‘free poetry’. This thesis starts with this sense of problem. I could find the opportunity in Ryu Ji-young’s two articles, “To People Who Want to Write Children’s Songs” and “How to Write Children’s Songs” in Children No. 13 and No. 15. Looking at Magazine Children, most of the children’s songs were formal songs, from the first issue of 1923 to the March issue of the Japanese colonial era in 1935, and from the restoration in 1948 to the closure in 1949. This was a direct contradiction to the words that the Children’s editorial department asked children to write and send children’s songs, “Don’t try to decorate them and write them honestly.” Formal poetry is an uncomfortable form for children to write poems freely because they have to write according to the number of letters. I saw that it was difficult for colonial Joseon children to freely capture the objects of life and poems through formal poetry. so it was not enough to become “honestly written poems” as hoped by the Magazine Children’s editorial department. I hope that this paper will begin and that the research on Children’s Songs in Children will be enriched in the future.