다무라 류이치(田村隆一)의 시에 나타난 삶의 태도와 의지 고찰 - 『사천의 낮과 밤(四千の日と夜)』과 『말이 없는 세계 (言葉のない世界)』를 중심으로-

Abstract

In this article, I will identity Ryuichi Tamura’s manner of life by comparing two of his early works. He is one of the representative poets in the postwar period in Japan. As a main member of the second “Arechi”, he was very dispassionate about the Japanese society which was right after WWII and depicted the dark side of it. He had many young supports at that time, because he was realistic. However, to the public it is difficult to understand and sympathize with his poems. For example, he mostly used abstract poetic words and employed Western ideas and poetic expressions. My goal is to look into his personal thoughts described in his poems. I checked two common keywords: ‘silence’ and ‘scream’ from the first poetical works “Four Thousand Days and Nights” (1956) and the second “World Without Words” (1962). In his first poetical works, he continuously showed the doubt of presence, question of death and living during the postwar period of the Japanese society after the defeat in WWII. However, in the second work, I found that he kept gradually free from hurt from the War and focused more on searching for his desirable life vision. Also, through the gray color, which is common among the two works and the trail of another living things, I could realize the process in which he started to focus on the colors of nature and how they affected his life.