김현구 시에 나타난 공간 표상의 변모와 그 의미

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate spatial representations and their changes in 85 works of Kim Hyeon-gu's poetry in "Complete Collection of Kim Hyeon-Gu's Poems." Kim wrote poems for approximately 20 years from 1930 to 1950, which is not very long. A look at his poems over the period with a focus on spatial representations clearly shows their changes. The dominant spaces in his poems created in the former period were natural spaces such as the river, sea, mountain, and road. They were all presented as universal and abstract spaces with no specific place names rather than appearing as concrete places, thus having certain images or figurative meanings. The prominent natural spaces in his poems from the period had no clear boundaries and were embodied as spaces of spread with blurred boundaries, which seems to have something to do with the characteristics of nature in the hometown. In those works, the poet called natural spaces as spaces to highlight the solitude of the lone speaker or arouse yearning for what had been lost. In the latter period, Kim had a realization of "vanity of life" through his perceptions of "death" and "agedness" and changed his spatial representations. The most prominent characteristic of his spatial representations in his works from the period is the appearance of specific historical places and place names. The universal and abstract spaces in his works of the former period were given specific names in his works of the latter period and became meaningful places to the poetic narrator. In his works of the latter period, he named specific places, which thus secured their historicity and specificity. Those historical places acquired a meaning as places to symbolize the identity and pride of the people. In his travel poems written during the period, the speaker felt sublime emotions before the vast and wonderful nature. In his works of the latter period, placeness made a contribution in the direction of arousing the reality of the speaker while embracing the time of distant history by summoning specific historical places and place names.