한국 현대시교육의 현황과 과제―고등학교 국어과 교재에 나타난 문제점을 중심으로

Abstract

This study analyzed 11 High School Textbooks of Korean Language 1 and 2 and 11 High School Textbooks of Literature published according to the 2011 revised national curriculum of the Korean Language in order to check the present condition of the literary thoughts, views, teaching methodologies that currently affect the contemporary poetry (literature) education. As a result, it was possible to identify problematic phenomena broadly in three categories in the present poetic literature education: (1) Narrator and rhyme/meter as poetic devices; (2) Wrong customs in the history of poetic literature; and (3) textbook power. Concerning (1), it is necessary to remember that although the concept of the narrator should extensively be applied to any texts, the narrator is specially named ‘poetic narrator’ only in poetry, which is unreasonable. Moreover, concerning the problem of the narrator in poetry, it is necessary to adjust the focus to the restoration of the conversations between ‘the narrator and the audience’ and ‘the implied poet and the implied reader.’ The problem of rhyme/meter is more serious. Since there has been no poetry with a fixed form in Korean, no feature has existed, which might be called the standard for rhyme/meter. Nevertheless, we reached the discussions on the syllabic meter and foot meter, for which no grounds could be found by defining the lyrics such as Sijo, Goryeo Gayo and Hyangga as poetry or expanding and applying the experience of the learning of Japanese poetry or British/American poetry to our poetry. Concerning (2), this study discussed that it would not be reasonable to define empathy/compassion as the traditional aesthetic consciousness or feature in the history of Korean poetry and that the theory of trend appearing in the 1940s has still affected too much. In (3), this researcher suggested that since the textbook has excessive power, it is necessary to find a way to get rid of or alleviate that and at the same time, pointed out that it is necessary to have an attitude of citing the original text properly.