서정주 시에 나타난 공동체와 이야기

Abstract

The purpose of this study is first, to ponder on fissure and vacancy underlying the double interpretation and evaluation system of his poetry and second, to make another paths that explain the attraction and excitement we feel in his poetry. His literary nature and aesthetics can date back to and explained by his twisted sense of history and lacking realization of the reality but can’t be reverted. Based upon Paul Ricoeur’s narrative identity, this study considered the process that ‘I’ in his poetry share others’ morality and communal stories. The ‘I’ in his poetry, as a being with ‘narrative identity’ beyond ‘the identity of the modernistic self,’ is based on ‘myself as the other one.’ This is confirmed in his hat thrown into the ring, 「Self-Portrait」. The origin of the narrative identity owned by ‘I’ in his poems is stories he heard during his childhood in Jilmaje and ‘tellers of those stories.’ His works repeatedly poeticize stories of his childhood and tellers of those stories in differing forms. This is expressed in a way where stories of sharing existence and life as in 『Jilmaje Myth』 intermix with ‘my’ stories as a branch of those stories. 『Jilmaje Myth』 is a story of Jilmaje for whose composition Seo, Jeong-Ju was one of its joint authors. In conclusion, his poetry exceeds ‘the epic of the self revealed in modernistic self-identity and is located at an ironical point that does not fall short of ‘communal stories’ that the modern age and modernistic individuals have missed.