1920년대 초기 시에 나타난 ‘거리감’의 도입과 숭고시학에 관한 시론(試論) ― ‘자아’와 ‘자연’을 중심으로

Abstract

The essay seeks to explain the reason behind the introduction of ‘distance’ in early 1920s poetry and sublime poetics through the relationship-in-meaning between the ego and the nature. In previous studies, ‘ego’ was seen as an aesthetic subject that represents individual’s independence in early 1920s poetry, and ‘nature’ was judged as being the aes- thetic object that was discovered through perspectives such as the introduction of ‘proselytizing landscape’. However, in early 1920s poetry and discourse, ‘nature’ emerges as a surplus concept that cannot be defined clearly, and ego and nature is exposed as those that can never achieve perfect unity; there is now a need for a new work to ex- plicate the inner uniqueness of early 1920s poetry. Early 1920s poets introduced ‘distance’ between the nature and the ego, and thus brought into the open the impossibility of unity, and exposed such things as Chosun and tradition as signs to fill the emptiness or the absence of the subject of reality that followed in their wake. In this process, they are able to recognize a great horizon that is above and beyond reality which presently beholds their ego. In this essay, this process is defined as ‘inner community’ : it is not an anti-modern desire; it is not a product of traditionalism; it is definitely not a world that transcends reality. It is instead what the subject of reality is endlessly attracted to, while wandering obsessively, yet he is unable to reach it, always ending in failure : it is a real experience. Therefore, this essay refers to psychoanalytic perspective to define and name the introduction of ‘distance’ in early 1920s poetry and its poetic binding as ‘sublime poetics’.