사건으로서의 ‘3·1운동’과 주요한 시의 변모ㅡ한국 근대시와 정치의 첫 번째 만남

Abstract

The ‘3‧1 Movement’ was a historical event that triggered the formation of the Nation. Through the ‘3‧1 Movement’, people began to recognize themselves as sovereigns and acted directly. Appearing just before ‘3‧1 Movement took place, Korea's modern poetry also tried to gain access to political events in response to 3‧1 Movement, Ju Yo-Han is a good example of this. Ju Yo-Han is one of the poets who pioneered modern poetry in earnest. He used prose-poems such as "Snow" and "Bulnori" as the basis for starting his daily life, and created an inner space through tension with the reality. His inner and tense reality was not abstract but concrete. His Japanese poem from late 1918 shows that the reality was a reality under the oppression of Japanese imperialism. A keen sense of Ju Yo-Han made react enthusiastically to the spirit of the independence movement at the time, and poems like ‘The Days of the Sun’, created after '2-8 Declaration of Independence,' showed fervent idealistic romanticism. But the fervent idealism was a passionate reaction to the turbulent reality, resulting in a departure from the concrete developments taking place in the real world. However, after returning home shortly after ‘3‧1 Movement’ and seeing the brutal crackdown by the Japanese military, Ju Yo-Han reconnected with specific political realities. His prose poem, "My Brothers and My sisters in Korea" published in the 『Dokrip Sinmun』 published in Shanghai, clearly images and make a present Japanese violence, and has raised emotions violently from it. However, it was a poetic style that can be seen at the “bulnori”. The poem delivers a strong political message through the form of a passionate prose he pioneered – but elaborately constructed. "My Brothers and My sisters in Korea" is created as a kind of political act, is one of the first modern poetry to show the combination of poetry and politics, and is significant in its meaning.