박남수 시의 이미지즘과 사회성 고찰

Abstract

This paper is aimed at examining the characteristics and limit of imagist poetry by analyzing Park Nam-Soo’s works. Because Imagism eliminates an ideological or social aspects from it’s aesthetics, it is difficult to find a social sense in imagist poetry. But After Park himself had given his early imagist poetry an social meaning, many critics misinterpreted his imagist poetry. We can call Park’s utterance a retrospective modification. It is clear that Park’s early poetry is imagist works without social meaning. Park extended his poetic horizon by passing the limit of early imagist poetry in which images are static and plain. He used narrative elements in the middle imagist poetry. Accordingly the absolute image in early poems gave place to the metaphoric image in middle poems. In the later poetry, the suppressed sociality by the principle of imagist aesthetics has revived. Park had written an epic in which a brilliant Korean hero, Euljimunduck, drove back the chinese enemy. It means that imagism is the opposite of sociality.