김춘수의 산문시 인식 연구 ― 『한국 현대시 형태론』을 중심으로

Abstract

After maintaining the poetics of meaningless poems and creating meaningless poems for a long time, Kim Chun-su put in a comma for meaningless poems and attempted to create prose poems in a full-fledged manner. His attempt of prose poems was based on the perception of prose poems presented in 『The Morphology of Korean Modern Poems』. His prose poems are placed in the course of such developmental stages as fixed form poems-free poems-prose poems. In addition, prose poems are a new poetic form appeared in the circumstance of returning to the prototype of literature at the crisis of genre dissolution. The fact that ‘whether or not there are rhythms and visual/auditory modalities’, namely Ezra Pound’s developmental stages of poetry, is dissolved into the discussion of poetic essentials, and classifies the form of modern poetry. In this vein, Kim Chun-su regarded prose poems as consisting of ‘prose of no rhythms’, different from free poems, and presenting ‘visual and auditory modalities’. According to this criterion, exemplary poet of prose poems is Jeong Ji-yong. Since then, Kim Chun-su argued that the contents of prose poems abided by ‘the disposition of discussion’. Kim Gu-yong’s prose poems are appropriate for this criterion and poetic disposition of discussion is placed in the crisis of genre between poetry and prose. However, this crisis provides an opportunity of inventing a new form of poetry through the dialectic process each other to creative literature and discussion literature. According to 『The Morphology of Korean Modern Poems』, Kim Chun-su’s perception of prose poems can be summarized into ‘having prose of no rhythms, having visual and auditory modalities and having discussion disposition in contents’. Although this is the characteristic of Kim Chun-su’s prose poems, it cannot include various forms of prose poems. After his important poetics of meaningless poems, Kim Chun-su attempted to create prose poems in a full-fledged manner and his perception of creating prose poems was based on 『The Morphology of Korean Modern Poems』. Since then, he maintained to create poetry that was similar to his poetics and presented his own unique perception and creative characteristic of prose poems.