신동문 연작시 「풍선기」에 나타난 공기 이미지 연구

Abstract

While serving the Republic of Korea Air Force as a soldier during the Korean War, Shin Dong-Mun wrote the serial poetry “Pungseongi(Balloon Period)” that embodied the anti-war sentiment from his experience in war. The purpose of this study is to categorize the image of air shown in “Pungseongi” into the image of air’s falling, the image of air’s formative play, and the image of harmony between air and land and study the characteristics of the subjects such as self-consciousness, anti-war consciousness and the spirit of freedom. In this study, the serial poetry “Pungseongi” was chosen from the poet’s collection “Balloon and the Third Crawl” (1956) as the target for study. The subjects related to air image were analyzed and interpreted based on the subject theory research and subject critical method as well as the original form research method. Especially, for the analysis of the image of air, the theory of Gaston Bachelard was used. Three characteristics of the subject consciousness of the image of air shown in “Pungseongi” can be summarized as follows. First, the image of air’s falling shows the existential observation and self-consciousness. Second, the image of air’s formative play shows the sense of nothingness and the anti-war sentiment. Third, the image of harmony between air and land symbolizes a free life like air, in other words, the spirit of peace.