랭보의 시에 나타난 새로운 세계와 이미지 표현 방법 - 『일뤼미나시옹』의 영사적인 글쓰기와 시각기제 고찰

The Expression Method of New World and New Images in Rimbaud’s Poems The true modernity of Rimbaud can be found in his redefining a poet as a 'laborer(travailleur)' and persisting his efforts to the limit for creating poetry. This point has not been sufficiently emphasized even though Rimbaud himself considered that significant. For Rimbaud, poetry meant a 'new labor(travail nouveau).' He rejected inspirations from the Muse or elegant poetry from a 'noble heart(cher coeur),' and he recognized poetry creating as an extremely arduous intellectual and physical 'labor' to conduct. Then, specifically what was the new contents and new way of poetry writing? There may exist a number of hypotheses, but now I would make an attempt to start from the mechanism of Magic Lantern which belongs to the cinema archeology and the hypothesis of projective act for the purpose of shedding light on one new facet of Rimbaud's poetry. In this point of view, <Illuminations> is a collection of poems composed of Magic Lantern mechanism and 44 plaques comprising a film. So to speak, it can be compared to an 'experimental film' made of lines-slides. The words and lines in the poems are often arranged in juxtaposition and a sort of montage relation. Through the way of future film-shooting and projection, the poet expresses the process of specific imagination and 'presentification' of unknown objects that cannot be materialized either in reality or in a mythical dimension. Without separating the poet and his images, <Illuminations> vividly presents the scene of poetic creation in which a poet struggles in the whole procedures of image conception, shooting, editing, and projection. As Rimbaud says, that is a marvelous 'workplace(chantier)' where everything converges as a whole one. Here, a despondent night in the dark or creative chaos originate and project new images at a moment bringing about the cliche-zero condition, or like the darkness in a movie theater, they nearly turn into a kind of matiere that reveals new things and bodies. If a poet is exerting himself to create the poetry transcending the limit of poetry of words, the poetry destroying the antiquated 'in-depth' stereotype of thought and meaning, the visual poetry tearing down the established pictorial convention of bourgeois, and the poetry listening to the sound of breathing of the world and even the sound of silence, our understanding and interpretation of his poetry need to be tried from a different angle.