김수영 시에 내포된 자발적 소외와 ‘설움’의 정념

Abstract

In order to clear of the conscious-oriented clue leading Kim Su-Young's poetry, this discussion tries to illuminate the fact that the pathos penetrating his early poems was the distress gearing deeply into the isolation as spontaneous alienation differing from the general adaptive mode of the alienated. Focusing on his very modest personal aspect by withdrawing from his aspect of worrying over history and times, this discussion also tries to take notice of the phase of 'livelihood' that he recognised through his concrete experiences and senses, and of the spontaneous alienation and the pathos of distress which were derived from that phase. Of his some biographical facts in very close connection with his poems of livlihood, his experiences in the Geoje-do POW camp and his wife Kim Hyun-Gyung's deviation especially are to be seen as the major factors strengthening the 'becoming-hetero- geneous of consciousness' in his poems of livelihood. When a situation as his wife's deviation happened to him to crush his pride fatally, his response to it was not to absorb himself in the activity(labor) making his livelihood prosperous but more enhanced to secure a position to distinguish him form livelihood in the distance. This enhancement often appeared repeatedly by the becoming-heterogeneous of consciousness in his livelihood. The pathos appearing in close adhesion to this attitude of livelihood is to be the 'distress.' His pathos of distress was generated in his do-nothing among the laboring people. In relation to the attitude of life intending not to deceive both other and 'me,' that pathos was generated in his wishing for things of other dimension within livelihood, and in his aspiring to prove his greatness. His intending toward do-nothing and distress was to be spontaneous rather than passive even if it took a reactive form against the repression of livelihood, since it was both his spiritual activity and pathos being practiced “because there is what I wish.” The distress as pathos being practiced “because there is what I wish” is to be seen as what contained already its dignity in itself. In this time, the alienation as isolation was generated between do-nothing and livelihood, solitude and livelihood, distress and livelihood. The position of this alienation is to be a painful position to attain its spiritually compensatory values.