백석․일본․아일랜드-백석 시 연구(3)

Abstract

This study is about Baek Seok’s experance in Japan. His poems had an excellent literary achievement on the basis of imagism in the late of 1930’s. He was born in Chŏngju in North Pyongan. He studied English literature (BA) at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. After making his literary debut with the publication of his poem “Jeongju Fortress” in the daily Chosun Ilbo in 1935, he published in the following year his first poetry anthology, Deer, which depicts local color and traditional Korean ethos in a beautiful language. I researched his experance on Japan and thinking on Ireland. Firstly, we studied his material in Japan. We can notice what he liked the ancient Chinese poetry to check on his school report. In his school report, We can know he registered the class on ancient Chinese poetry, Laotse and Tao Yuan Ming, Li Bai and Du Fu. Second, he introduced the Ireland literature after comming Chosun. He found the self-consciousness of intellectual under the Japanese colony on the Ireland literature colonized by the United Kingdom. Third, we thought why he liked in his poems on a traditional foods and clothes and the traditional community’s criterion and spirit. we studied the multilateral meaning why he enjoyed making use of the unique Pyongan dialect in his writing, why he focusd on the ‘Old Thing’, as the mystery and holiness, when they are in rural community. we thought on his exoticism on Chosun’s ‘old thing’. ‘Old Things’ is one of the key factors that forms the aesthetic consciousness of Baek Seok’s Poems.