일제 후반기 국민시의 성격과 형식

Abstract

This paper examined the nature of poems in the late Japanese colonial era through the concept of ‘national poems’. Discussion about ‘national poem’in this era is generally studied centering on 『National Literature』. However,to consider the nature and forms of ‘national poems’ in the late Japanese colonial era, attention should be paid to the 『National Poetry』(1941) and the 『National Poets』(1945). In this context, this paper examined ‘national poems’ centering on the natures of these two media. The former was led by Japanese residing in Chosun and the latter was led by those who majored in English literature at Kyeongseong Imperial University including Sato Kiyosi. In general, ‘national poems’ that appeared in the late Japanese colonial era are known to be a literary ideology that justified the Japanese invasion and supported fascism. However, as identified in those magazines, discussion about ‘national poems’ at that time had much stronger ideological natures than such instrumental natures. Therefore, unlike the existing one–sided assessment that ‘national poems’ served the war, the fact that ‘national poems’ were a literary attempt to surmount Western modern literature through Japanese traditional literary forms should be noted.