한국 현대 노년시에 나타난 죽음의식ㅡ시간성과 죽음에 대한 존재론적 구조를 중심으로

Abstract

This thesis aims to examine how the death consciousness of Korean modern old age poetry is shown in each ‘daily temporality’ and ‘underlying temporality’, by understanding the death consciousness shown in Korean modern old age poetry based on Heidegger’s ontological structure of temporality and death. When the death consciousness of old age poetry is shown in daily temporality, the death of old people was concealed and belittled as a public incident by potential old people, and also degenerated into miserable and lonely death. In the old age poetry in which old people treated their own death as daily temporality, they actually overcome the fear of death by intentionally drawing the daily temporality, hoping to be dead before getting too old, or caricaturing their upcoming death. Eventually, by expressing the death consciousness of old age poetry as daily temporality, the poets were hoping that the old people could overcome the fear of death by contemplating the cold heartedness and rudeness of potential old people regarding the death of old people as a public incident in the aging society, and also establishing the opportunity to think about their aliveness, weight of time, and death again. When the death consciousness of old age poetry is shown in underlying temporality, both old people or potential old people show the looks of aiming to build up self-existence by realizing themselves as ‘a being moving toward the death’, recovering the original self-identity, and looking back on themselves. The death consciousness in underlying temporality shown in Korean modern old age poetry not only makes us pay attention to the death of old people in the aging society, and makes us feel the desirable death and correct condolences and attitude toward death, but also makes us review the meanings of existence by questionning about ‘if we are original beings who create ourselves within the time given to us’. Like this, once the death consciousness shown in Korean modern old age poetry is interpreted as an existential opportunity to recover the underlying temporality, the death of old people is not simply regarded as a negative phenomenon or social problem. Based on this preliminary thesis, there should be more further researches on the death consciousness of Korean modern old age poetry in more various methods, which could contribute to the approach of discourses on the death of old people in the new perspective in the aging society, and also variously establishing the humanistic alternatives that could give the meanings and value of life in the course of getting prepared for the upcoming death.