현대시의 공동체 문화로서의 음식 고찰

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to regard food poetry found in the history of modern poetry with affective culture codes and examine poems using it as a subject matter to reveal it as the image of sociocultural community experience. Here, this author will take the first collections of poems written by young contemporary poets in Korea which have been published after the mid-2010’s and examine the matter of experience. Particularly, focusing on how the poems of ‘food’ that can be said to be ‘the factor’ of experience found in their poems work, this study analyzes why experience arises as a crucial factor in the young poets’ poems again. A poet’s food, so-called experience, influences the works of poems and the magnetic field of poetry in the age. Therefore, it is needed to ruminate on the poets in Korea who have cultivated the history of contemporary poetry associating their private or social experience with food image to give light upon modern poetry in sensate ways. Furthermore, it is significant to investigate how the poet’s individual matters of life and practical issues are depicted through food culture in terms of the history of modern poetic literature. In order to examine how food image is expressed in the text of this paper, the poems of Pak So-ran, Lee Seol-ya, Choi Ji-in, Im Sol-a, and Sin Cheol-gyu who issued their first collection of poems in the mid-2010’s, this author has preferentially analyzed how the food image in them is different from that found in the poems written by such poets as An Do-hyeon and Jang Seok-nam who succeeded to ‘Baek Seok’ and his tradition among advanced poems in Korea. After considering food poems preliminarily through that comparison, this writer approached ‘food poems’ appearing in the works of those young contemporary poets. The reason is that it is necessary to discuss the fact that food poems involve universal, sociocultural phenomena, and for instance, Baek Seok’s food poems exist as the possibility of salvation in the reality of the dismal era and appear representatively in advance. It conforms to a part of poetic strategy to reveal reality as something raw that one discloses oneself in reality with a sense of aesthetics to recover the community regardless of time. Concerning the method of this study, this researcher has explored the codes of contemporary food culture as the matter of ontological experience and discussed the possibility of community recovery and salvation. To address the goal, this study has classified ‘the embodiment of food image and experience’ into three types and explored them genuinely.