해방기 정지용 시의 연구 ― 현실 인식의 변주를 중심으로

Abstract

This article is a study on the Jung Ji-Yong’s consciousness about reality which appeared in his late poetry during the liberation period (1945-1950). In an interview, he asserted that there can not be any purity after 8 · 15. This shows how he thought about the political reality at that time. Known as a ‘artificial poet’ and a ‘pure poet’ under Japanese imperialism, he was trying to define himself newly in the face of a rapidly changing new political reality. He was looking for the continuity of his poetry in terms of ‘land’ and ‘people’, which is closely related to the imminent political changes of that time. So far, very little has been done in this direction. Moreover, there has been a tendency to regard this transition as ‘indifference to reality’ or to dismiss it as ‘political confusion’. However, in his works during the liberation period, we can see that he was constantly interested in the reality, specially ‘land’ and ‘people’. Based on the existing discussions, I would like to examine how the consciousness on reality is expressed in his late works, which consists of existing works and newly discovered works. In this paper, I try to clarify the tendency of his late poetry, and to clarify the reason why such tendency is inevitable. In other words, I want to make sure that the portrayal of his everyday events and the consciousness of his tragic life are the final consequences of his poetic changes. And this will reveal the reason why Ji-Yong named the title of the last anthology as “Spring thunder(春雷)”