김수영의 한자어 사용 양상 연구

Abstract

This study seeks to establish a basis and validity of interpretation by examining the frequency of Chinese characters and amending their signification, which has been falsely interpreted in the past. In investigating the application and the poetic effects of Chinese characters, the study also attempts to explain the connection between the way in which poetic words are used and the poetic world by referring to the cultural background of the time. The frequent use of Chinese characters may take poetry to the brink of becoming abstract, but Kim Su-yeong’s Chinese characters have diverse poetic effects and often contribute to the concrete shaping of his work. This paradox reveals that, although Chinese characters are often used in his application of poetic language, veracity of speech acts on his work as a yardstick. In other words, the abstruseness emerging from Chinese characters or passages of Chinese characters appears to be related to the linking of the abstractness and concreteness of language. Moreover, the Chinese characters used by Kim Su-yeong as poetic language are either not to be found in the dictionary or include expressions that are not commonly used. He carefully selected, modified, and used poetic words in accordance with the quality of a poem. It seems Kim Su-yeong had a concept and awareness of his “generation.” The work of discovering the “love” and “affection” for those “times” without getting too far ahead or falling too far behind was assigned as a task for his poetry.