심훈의 중국 체류기 시 연구

Abstract

This study aims to look into the Sim Hun’s deeds and achievements in socialistic independence movement and literature while staying in Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other cities in China during the period between 1920 and 1923 and to make empirical discussion on how his activities in China affected his poetic world. In particular, political frustration and skepticism he experienced while in China brought a striking change in his poetry, which is believed to be the result of internalizing his critical recognition of factionalism found in socialistic independence movement that occurred most actively in Shanghai while focusing on these superficial changes. Sim Hun’s poetry world is largely classified into two distinctively different trends: one in early stage of his stay in Beijing and Shanghai and other in late stage of his stay in Nanjing and Hangzhou. His poets in the first half of his life as a poet embraced his consciousness as a historical principal agent clearly in them, exposing his political awareness forefront while those in the second half are viewed to depict his personal emotions such as grief, homesickness and nostalgia as a drifter far away from home against the backdrop of the world of lyricism. However, this paper focuses on the fact that his attempts, including his heading to China in the first place were disguised to hide his political purposes and believes that his poets should be viewed and appreciated in terms of ‘consistency’, not ‘change’. That is, the fact that his personal emotions and lyricism were actively incorporated into his poems in the second half of his poetic life was triggered by his frustration and skepticism he felt about the independence movement in Shanghai in early 1920s that was marred by factionalism and partisan conflict, which needs to be understood as the process of a paradoxical introspection to establish his upright political direction rather than political exit. In this respect, this paper has discussed how the world of Sim Hun’s poets changed during his stay in China and what implications were carried in it with belief that Sim Hun’s experience of staying in China in early 1920s made a significant impact on his philosophy and his world of literature.