한국 현대시에 나타난 극적 요소 연구-김경주를 중심으로

Abstract

This study was intended to find out the characteristics of 'dramatic poetry' that showed up as a tendency of Korean contemporary poetry. In this study, dramatic elements of Kim kyung Joo's poems were researched and the changes and meanings these dramatic elements give were reviewed. Unlike a poetic drama, dramatic poetry as 'dramatic poems' is classified as sub-genre of poetry along with lyric poetry and epic poetry. It can be considered as 'dramatic poetic texts' that give dramatic dynamic to poems by combining forms and the elements of dramatic patterns such as dramatic situations that cause dramatic tension, dramatic lines and dramatic structure of ascending and descending while poetic languages and emotions are maintained. Dramatic poetry is not appropriate to staging that prioritizes literary value over performance value, but the voice of persona can be imitated by imagination of stage and roles of drama based on poetic mood through narration. In other words, it is not limited within consumption of poems by eyes or sentimental narration of lyrical monologue, but it can be read out with various voices about dramatic situations inherent in dramatic poems. This recitation of dramatic poems not only revitalizes the quality of poems but also makes the poems more sentimental. Kim Kyung Joo shows new possibility of modern poetry by combining poems that are used to self-monologue of lyric ego with various dramatic elements. The dramatic elements and their effects appearing poems of Kim Kyung Joo are as follows. First, the Kim Kyung Joo's poems have reality by showing the lines and acting of characters by accepting the dramatic roles whether the characters are humans or animals, objects or something abstract and ideal. The reality broadens readers' imagination by allowing them to face the poetic situation with possibility. In addition, it enables readers to enjoy poems more sensuously by allowing them to read out poems reproducing dramatic situations while imagining the stage and characters and imitating the voice of persona based on the poetic mood. Second, 『Gidam(Strange Story)』, Kim kyung Joo's collection of poems, is composed of three acts by borrowing drama's elements that consist of acts and scenes, so it strongly appeals the intention of poet contained in one book by development of meaning and overlapping through connection of poems rather than independence of each poem. Third, his poems cause poetic tension and show absurdness of life full of corruption, contradiction, malice and confusion by maximizing severance and ambiguity of meanings by reproducing non-continuous, unnatural and illogical dialogue methods in the poems accepting dialogue methods of absurd drama. Fourth, his poems contain instructions, which are one of formal elements of drama, in a variety of ways. They directly describe the space-time backgrounds of poems like stage instructions of play, instruct acting and tones of speakers like acting instructions of play, and directly instruct readers' attitudes that the poet desires. By combining instructions of play with poems, he presents the methods of how readers should appreciate poems and how they can enjoy his poems properly. Fifth, as a drama embellishes stage and characters with various props, Kim kyung Joo expresses poem's texts with typography of various types and arrangement according to each meaning like stage setting of drama, instilling the feeling of movement and highlighting the meaning of each poem. Sixth, Kim kyung Joo not only embodies the crossbred aspect of existence that no existence is sole, perfect or certain through genre blending of poetry and drama, but also shows the poet's artistic attitude to try to write poems with new imagination operated with his own personality at the front line of language art by paying attention to potentials of temporary, accidental, uncertain and unstable things while gliding over the 'gap' or 'space'.