시인 스즈(食指)의 창작의식에 대한 소고 — 이념자장과 창작의식의 길항을 중심으로

Abstract

Based on the fact that poet Shi-Zhi(食指)’s works, unlike other ‘the Intellectual Youth Poets Group’ such as ‘Bei-Dao(北島)’ and Gu-Cheng(顧城)’ this paper was able to analyze his poetry world focusing on the impact of national ideology on the lives of individuals. First, it analyzed the poet’s process of hardness toward socialist ideology and how the expression of its characteristics was revealed. There are two main reasons why poets have created more ideological poetry than other ‘the Intellectual Youth Poets Group’. One is because he was influenced by his parents, who were high-ranking officials, and the other is because of his pure and optimistic character. He created a poem centered on the national ideology formed in this way, that is, Maoism. Before and after the ‘Cultural Revolution’, he created poetry with the crowd Maoism of ‘workers-peasants-military’, and after China opened up its capital market, he created poetry with an anti-capitalist sentiment. It is noteworthy that he not only wrote few critical works about the ‘Cultural Revolution’ even after the ‘Cultural Revolution’, but also continued to create ideological works. Second, he analyzed the pattern of schizophrenia between ideals and reality. Although he had a high ideal, the literary world did not accept his old-fashioned creation. Then, eventually, the mental breakdown that had been latent in him was revealed. He had an excessive sense of vocation. His sense of vocation was to create a prototype that could inherit China’s excellent traditional culture while expressing socialist ideology. His excessive sense of vocation became the driving force behind his creative enthusiasm as a poet, but it was also an obstacle to not facing reality. In the end, he felt despair and anger thinking that he had not achieved the results he wanted, and by distorting the gap between reality and ideals into a ‘fate consciousness’, he lost the opportunity to escape the ideology established in childhood. Looking at Shi-Zhi’s bitter life, I realized how important it is to see the cruel nature of a particular ideology mediated by state power and constantly resist it, and how necessary it is to form a free social structure to properly display the artist’s talent.