윤동주 「서시」의 의미 연구

Abstract

Yun, Dong－ju's 「The First Poem」is producing a variety of meanings by omitting its meanings and expressing it indirectly. This paper is to understand the meaning of the work, not the intention of the poet, based on the fact that literature is content to exist by itself. The meaning of a work is the real meaning which the work represents through linguistic combination and structure. This poem is divided into two stanzas. The first stanza of 1~8 lines is expressing the poet's feelings, and the second stanza of 9 lines shows the imaginary scenes of nature. The first stanza is divided into 1~4 lines containing mental distress and 5~8 lines representing love and practice will. The scenes of the second stanza are symbolically representing the heart of the poet who has overcome conflicts and troubles. 「The First Poem」is a work which has encapsulated the pure heart seeking beautiful and peaceful world with concise and implicative words. In terms of space, this poem is divided into Heaven and Earth, and in terms of conflicts, it shows the process of division and combination of the realistic ego which is tormented in the real world and the essential ego which wishes for the beautiful and peaceful heavenly world. Though the realistic ego is ambivalent and worried about the gap between reality and ideals, it recovers its essential ego through aiming for the heavenly world and pursues the peaceful and pure world which it always longs for inwardly.