김경린이 모색한 메타언어로서의 신시(新詩)

Abstract

This research to interpret Kim Kyeong-Rin’s poetry as a process of overcoming Western modernism literature and for poetic metalanguage. His works were based on sense of “the second half-century(後半紀)” in which he thought that new tradition should overcome the limitation of modernism literature in the first half of the 20th century. While the Western literature had its limits in verbalizing the actual life of human, Kim Kyeong-Rin endeavored to search for poetic metalanguage as “new poetry(新詩)” which undergoes innovation in consonance with change human society. The poetic metalanguage is poetic concept of language that operates as fundamental base to understand and express humanity constructed by social context. In the Liberation Period, Kim Kyeong-Rin thought that odernism literature had been estranged from humanity that it could not an appropriate metalanguage. His poetry published in the Liberation Period was represent the absence of proper metalanguage in contemporary society. The poetic metalanguage, which have been explored in Kim Kyeong-Rin’s poetry, is language of dialogue for cognitional communication between in contemporary civilization. explor poetic metalanguage is continually innovated according to ceaseless change of civilized society with his purpose to recover universality of human beings. In conclusion, the “new poetry”, central orientation of his poetic works, is poetic language that has to be perpetually reestablished to express dynamic universality of human beings transformed by variable contexts of civilization.