정의홍 시의 고향의식 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to look at the aspects of hometown consciousness shown in Jung Eui-hong’s poetry. Jung Eui-hong has a critical voice in his poetry about structural contradictions of society and absurd reality, that is reflected in hometown image, which often appears in his poetry. The aspects of hometown consciousness shown in Jung Eui-hong’s poetry are as follows. First, the poetry of Jung Eui-hong utilizes the image of the home, as the space of human’s fundamental, to show a willingness and practice for a community life. In his poetry, the hometown does not dwell in the personal space, but rather expands into a community of spaces for the people, expressing the negative aspects of the real world. Through this, the poetry hopes for a home as a beautiful space where community life is possible. Second, The poetry of Jung Eui-hong describes the hometown's visual space based on a critical view of reality and using various materials of traditional culture as objective correlations. The poet is dreaming of a return to his friendly and beautiful home, which is inherent in the memory of his early years through cold self-observation, while also seeing the appearance of his hometown being filled with oppression and violence. Third, in The Poetry of Jung Eui-hong, poetic space of the Hometown expands into a space of collective unconscious. The poet expands the violence of material civilization experienced in the process of industrialization and modernization into a space of collective unconscious, exposing the disastrous reality of his home village. It also expands, poetic space of the hometown as a nation's home, and captures the aspirations for the reunification of North and South.