백석 시에 나타난 문화의 충돌과 습합 ― 여행·음식·종교를 중심으로

Abstract

This study set out to investigate the ways Baekseok's poems would meet the world and operate with it in his poems about traveling, food and religion and thus to find out the origin of his persistent tendency of presenting heterogeneous things at the same time in his poems. It was apparent that his poems had a variety of cultures making an appearance simultaneously. Heterogeneous and even sometimes contrasting cultures, whose examples would include Buddhism, shamanist practice, and Christianity, things that were folk and things that were modern, hometowns and strange towns, folklore and science, and dialects and the standard language, coexisted in the poetic world of Baekseok. First his poems about traveling were investigated to understand how his poetry met the world and operated with it. Then the focus moved to his poems in which food appeared. In those poems, food functioned as the means of awakening his acquisition with a strange world and his memory of his childhood and home. Thirdly, a focus was also placed on a cultural phenomena caused by various religions. In his poems, many different religions coexisted together instead of conflicting one another, melting into each other. Folk religions like the shamanist practice naturally coexisted with other religions like Buddhism, Christianity, and Taoism, which is one of the characteristics of Korea's religious culture. Finally, it was examined that the simultaneous coexistence and integration of diverse cultural phenomena in his poems was related to his strategy of anthropomorphism, which was also observed in many of his poems. In his poems, he would refer to inanimate objects as well as creatures that were not human as "you" and choose the word "we" to refer to his relationships with them. In the study, it's maintained that his strategy of anthropomorphism had something to do with his ways of meeting with the world.