월남시인의 삶의 두 방향 - 박남수와 양명문의 경우

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of war and ideology on life and poems of poets who defected from the North Korea during the liberation war. The subjects are poets who have experienced ideology of both North and South focusing on the cases of Park Nam-Soo and Yang Myung-Moon. This matter is about approaching confidential and delicate issue of receiving the ‘party’s literature’ in the North and reception of ‘ideology of anticommunism’ in the South. The reason for choosing Park Nam-Soo and Yang Myung-Moon for the subject of this study as the poets who defected from the North can be summarized into a few things. First, they were both from Pyeongan-do, and released poems that supported North Korea’s regime. Secondly, patterns of their lives as poets who defected from the North were extreme in South Korean society. Thirdly, they were similar and different at the same time because whereas Yang Myung-Moon was active towards ‘patriotic’ act as <‘Munchong’ National Salvation Party(문총구국대(文總救國隊)> during the period of Korean war, Park Nam-Soo, by comparison, was passive, and they both supported ‘pure poetry’ after defecting from North Korea. Both poets are showing attitudes of accepting ideology of both North and South, but the way of adapting in the South is showing difference. Poems and life attitude they showed during the period of liberation war can be considered as very unusual and deviant contents caught in between the early and latter part. We still evade to make mention of poems that defend the North Korean system. However, it is necessary to look into the literature of the past for literature that goes beyond ideology for complete literary history after the reunification.