신석정 시의 동심 연구

Abstract

This study aims to investigate nature-friendly childhood innocence in Shin Seok-Jeong’s poetry. This study began from the judgment that the world of Poet Shin Seok-Jeong’s works has been investigated and revealed to a considerable extent through the existing studies; however, there are insufficient studies of consciousness of childhood innocence in his pure lyric poems with nature as a motif. Childhood innocence that symbolizes nature and naivety meaning the phenomenon in which things are not modified is the sentiment penetrating Shin Seok-Jeong’s poetic world. The base system of thinking here is Laotzu’s thought. Laotzu’s philosophy does not look for the truth in invisible and non-perceptual aspects unlike other metaphysics. For example, based on nature itself remained intact, Laotzu’s thought is generally accepted as a profound philosophical view while not being isolated from the world of phenomenon. That is not unrelated to the attitude that does not deny natural phenomena but acknowledges their existence as they are. Thus, it is judged that Laotzu’s thought flows at the bottom of consciousness of nature-friendly childhood innocence settled in Shin Seok-Jeong’s poetic world. Of course, when light is shed on his poetic world, the philosophical backgrounds of Confucianism and Buddhism cannot be overlooked. This study examined the background on which polite expressions and subjunctive moods in Shin Seok-Jeong’s poems with the poetic diction, ‘mother’ formed nature-friendly childhood innocence. By borrowing the poetic diction of mother, a tone of childhood innocence is projected usually in the poet’s early works, which seems to be influences of Tagore and Han Yong-Un during this period. “Desire for Heterotopias concerning the Consciousness of Childhood Innocence” analyzed his works, applying Foucault’s Heterotopia theory. Childhood innocence, interpreted as a child’s mind, does not just mean children’s pure and lucid psychology. It also puts human’s natural psychology behind, which leads a world of division and conflict to reconciliation and harmony. The human mentality that aims at this childhood innocence can be said to be consciousness of childhood innocence. According to Foucault, heterotopia means another space in reality as a realized utopia or a place outside a place. This study discussed his concept and principle of thinking like this, concerning Shin Seok-Jeong’s consciousness of nature-friendly childhood innocence. “Devotion to Hylozoist Childhood Innocence” examined works in the later period. Shin Seok-Jeong’s poetic world is usually divided into the early period (Candlelight and Sad Pastoral Songs), the middle period (Glacier), and the later period, (Overture of Mountain and Sound of Bamboo), and according to this classification, the period in which hylozoist childhood innocence appears noticeably is the later period, for he shows a poetry world that turns to nature and childhood innocence during this period. Like this, examining the aspects of nature-friendly childhood innocence that appears throughout Shin Seok-Jeong’s poetry would be meaningful as part of the work that expands his poetic world.