월남시인과 시조시인

Abstract

The event for commemorating writers’ centennial anniversary of birth since 2001 has become a practice in which researchers unearth, interpret and report constellations of modern literature to the public. From the beginning, writers who defected to North Korea frequently became the object of researches, however, there are not many of them left for research. For a while, writers who defected from North Korea will become the object of research more frequently. This is because writers who defected to North Korea had a firm status as important figures but many writers who defected from North Korea became a writer after they settled down in South Korea. The existence of writers who defected from North Korea is an important factors with which we could examine the literary society of North Korea and materials for our introspection. Therefore, it is needed to objectify the portion of poets who defected from North Korea and put them into the major category of the literary history during the process of reorganizing the poetical circles of the postwar period. By including poets who defected from North Korea, we need to complement the balance of research in which the lacks of Korean literature was examined with focus on poets who defected to North Korea. The reorganization process of the postwar poetical circle will be able to find a new dynamic from this. Kim, Jongmoon, whose centennial anniversary of birth falls on this year is famous as a poet of military general since the foundation of South Korea. Since his first collection of poems, he pushed vivid language of imagism to the extreme and carved a paradoxical will to survive in ruins of the war without fail. He also revealed anxieties of modern people through abundant signs and icons and seeked for his own modernism. Ku, Sang joined the literary coterie magazine Eunghyang(응향) at Wonsan in Hamnam and defected from North Korea after experiencing a serious slip of the pen and energetically played his role as a representative poets who defected from North Korea for half a century since the division. His poetic subjects could be divided into two; one is a respond to reality and historical awareness on it, the other is the seek for human salvation based on Catholic sense. Sijo poet Jeong, Wanyoung showed his talent and perspective of grasping and presenting natural phenomenon. He raised the status of Sijo very high and is well-known for high level of artistic qualities. It is necessary to reconstruct the literary traces to commemorate their centennial anniversary of birth and continue the research on poets who defected from North Korea and Sijo poets who played active roles after the liberation