백석 시의 숭고(崇高)와 그 의미

Abstract

After the early poems 『a deer』 of Baek Seok, the latter poems of him expressed experiences of the sublime. This paper found and analyzed that Baek Seok's poems(「北方에서(in the northern sects)」(1940), 「南新義州柳洞朴時逢方」(1948)) had expressed the sublime experience. For helpful information, this paper used Longinus and Kant's discussions about the sublime. Baek Seok, in 「北方에서」, had a movement to a vast expanse of plain Manchu(the origin of Korean race-history) from the limited and vanished world('앞대') of Korean Peninsula. But he can't discovered the sacred values of the origin in huge plain. In addition, he was placed in extreme environments in 「南新義州柳洞朴時逢方」. He felt negative sentiments about himself in overwhelming difficulties, and couldn't hold a candle to those's power. But he thought derivatives from overwhelming circumstances and sentiments, and turned negative feelings to inner tranquillity by thinking the enormous fate. These kind of things shows typical mechanism of the sublime experience. Because, the sublime is accompanied by movement to the infinite or original world from the limited world(Longinus), by negatively shrinking feelings in some overwhelming state(Kant), by consciousness about power of thinking reason ability(Kant). Besides, this paper judged what his the sublime experiences had meanings in connection with his the early poems and Korean poetry of the latter age of 1930's.