신동엽 시에 나타난 ‘생성’의 의미

Abstract

Sin DongYeob, in his poems, expresses strong enmity toward repressive systems such as nations and ideologies like capitalism and imperialism. He suggests that Koreans have suffered from Yangban’s exploitation during Chosun dynasty, and from repression of Japanese Fascist colonization, the imperialism of United States and the dictatorships of Lee SeungMan and Park JeongHee. Also, according to his viewpoints, the foreign capital has invaded into Koreans’ lives, by which national identity and self-reliance were forced to be destroyed. Sin Dongyeob regards the forces of comprador capital as sloughs, which must be expelled from Han peninsular. These negative elements of civilization hinder us from living as ‘JeonGyongIn’ in the utopia(the world of WonSuSeong). Sin DongYeob can be classified as a anarchist because he tried to escape from the repression and to revolt against the fragmentation of human body and the world. However, only a revolution as a phenomenon of de-territorialization cannot solve the problem of fragmentation of human-beings or our society due to its incompleteness. Rather we should continue a series of revolutions by means of ‘becoming.’ This point of view can be applied to the theory of Deleuze and Guattari about ‘Rhyzome’, ‘de-territorialization’ and ‘body without organism.’ Sin DongYeob shows characters’ ‘becoming’, in his poems, into animals for restoring their healthy desires of ‘the world of GyuSuSeong.’ Especially, he induces women to have sexual relations with snakes whose skins seem to be very smooth and erotic. This means that women would like to become the being with erotic body of snake, the primitivity of which can not be found in civilized male persons. The female character in the poem suggests that she would use the various concoction processes of male seeds to recover its original state. This can be applied to Deleuze and Guattari’s becoming. The positive attitude of the female toward the male means their transversal movements to change the positions in society which has been distorted by patriarchy. The climactic ‘becoming’ in Sin Dong Yeob’s poems is represented through death, which can be interpreted as eternity. The revolutionary characters like Jeon BongJun and Sin Hanyeu dare to escape from physical body to death without any regret and shaking for entering the infinity, which can be compared to Deleuze and Guattari’s whale-becoming of Ahab in Melville’s Moby-Dick. The poet thinks that the revolution for correcting the corrupted world cannot be done at one stroke, rather by the process of ‘becoming’ through a series of revolutions of Hanyeu or three Buddhist female monks. They just transfer from this world to the other world just like the change from one material to the other one.