김달진 시의 장소성 연구

Abstract

Weolha Kim Dal-jin’s poems that broadened the domain of the history of Korean contemporary poetry through the active presentation of works in the 1930s-40s in the Japanese colonial era have mainly been investigated centering around the Buddhist worldview and inactive nature by his biographical trajectory. Thus, this study started from the awareness of a problem that it would be necessary to have discussions applying various methodologies, themes, and perspectives on Kim Dal-jin’s poems and looked into Kim Dal-jin’s poetic worldview and imagination related to them, newly, discussing the characteristics and meaning of placeness, which have not been explored in earnest in the studies of Kim Dal-jin’s poems. The aspects of places in Kim Dal-jin’s poems were divided into a place of stuffed everydayness, a place of ‘space different’ from hometown space, and a place in the Buddhist aesthetic sense. It was found that the place of stuffed everydayness was a place where existential isolation generated as wandering in self-consciousness that could not go to a wider world and the reality of survival ran into each other dwelt in. The place of ‘space different’ from hometown space was discussed by applying Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia centering around his homesick poems and poems in the period of Manchuria. It was possible to examine the identity that defined the source of the being of ‘me’ and the world of the consciousness of a Joseon poet in Manchuria during Japanese colonial rule. For the place in the Buddhist aesthetic sense, it was found that he showed Buddhist poetics while internalizing and deepening his own Buddhist metaphysics into poetic thinking and imagination through placeness, not relying on subjective descriptions or techniques of Buddhist subject matters. There is another difference from the pioneers in that he discussed the meaning of place by substituting that by the life of the monks or Buddhist rituals. It was found that in Kim Dal-jin’s poems, a place often embodied poetic meanings and created tensions. Sometimes, he showed the characters of place by stepping directly on a specific place name or space and sometimes, revealed its looks with a place like the position or location where specific emotions and meanings took place. Poetry on the place became the foundation for a new perspective on Kim Dal-jin’s poems as a key to an understanding of the speaker’s gaze.