이상화 시에 나타난 멜랑콜리의 양상

Abstract

This paper mainly does research about a poet Lee Sang-hwa who has lived in a colonized country and his sadness he showed in his poem in the process of his cognition of the real world. And the feelings, which can be summarized as “melancholy affect”, will be investigated in layers subtly. By combining his experience of losing and the crying of animals together, Lee Sang-hwa expressed his sadness and sorrow over Japanese imperial aggression and extended sadness of his and the community. Besides, Lee Sang-hwa, who experienced the losing of his motherland and nation, believed that the world in which he lived was on the verge of collapse. The image of god in his poems didn’t mean the savior, but the brining inevitable disasters to the public of Korea oppositely. Therefore, a defiant attitude against the god was shown. Such a mentality, based on the expectation of the end of the world and the distrust of salvation, is defined as “the eschatological melancholy”. Despite of his expectation of the end of the passive world where he lived, this didn’t just end by the consciousness of destruction or the impulse of death. In the reality just as a dangerous situation, he was still hopeful about the “new world”, and put constant emphasis on innovation, which has demonstrated the “melancholia heroica”. In conclusion, the melancholy embodied in Lee Sang-hwa’s poems is not merely negative emotion, but an affect that implies a force driving him move forward. This is of great significance when re-examining his world of poetry.