이광수의 장시와 안중근과의 연관성 — 「옥중호걸」과 「곰」을 중심으로

Abstract

In this article, I examine the mistake which resulted from an error in writing ‘Bueungi(부엉이)’ as ‘Buam(브엄)’ when the poem, “Okjunghogeol,” was put on Lee, GwangSoo’s complete works. Furthermore, I focus on the probability that this poem was literary figuration of Ahn, JoongGeun’s heroism who sniped Ito Hirobumi. This poem, published in 1910s, has been studied a lot. However, it was not interpreted and evaluated fully because ‘Buam(브엄)’ was misspelled as ‘Bueungi(부엉이)’ when it was published on his complete works. I think many of the existing discussions focusing on the poet’s complete works did not fully find out the poet’s intention of writing this poem because of the different point of view from the intention of the original poem. In this respect, I try to broaden the interpretation of the text through connecting the hero in “Okjunghogeol” and “Gom” with Ahn, JoongGeun. In “Okjunghogeol”, I compare Ahn, JoongGeun, jailed because of his assassinating Ito Hirobumi, with ‘the Bear prisoned in a jail’, and in “Gom” ‘Ahn, JoongGeun put to death’ with ‘the bear dying’, examining the methodic characteristic reflecting the recognition of the reality in those days. Lee, KwangSoo tried to represent his sense of history and the recognition of the reality through his heroic poems in the beginning of his literary life. He selected the heroic poems as a medium both of praising Ahn, JoongGeun’s heroic attitude and expressing of his condolence for Ahn’s death, singing the fate of this national community through the symbol of ‘the tiger and the bear.’