백석 시에 나타난 공동체의 성격과 그 의미

Abstract

Most of the previous studies on Baek Seok's poetry have explained that his poetry were related to revive and regain the national community. His poetry, however, has aspects that can't explain with a concept of the modern national community. Parallel and repetition, which are the main ways of linguistic connection in his poems, are the evidence that maintain the numerous contingencies of life and the mesh of relationship as they are. These aspects cannot be captured by the artificial poetic expression. All the objects can exist together with other things without losing its peculiarity, if only they stay within this symbolic system, In Baek Seok's poetry, The individuality of an object is not expressed as a self-sufficient being but is displayed as a being among the complex relation, which can't be identified with a logical reasoning. The same applies to the subject who sees the objects. The subjects and the objects are not separated but stayed together thanks to the postpositional word ‘와/과’, which is a connective word meaning "and". In Baek Seok's poetry, this postpositional word allows meetings and crossings of each being, annulling binomial confrontation. Also, it forms the world that any difference and distinction does not matter at all. This world is not a modern national community that separates the inside with the outside centering around the common nature and that peruses the sameness, but a harmonious world that relates to each other with their familial similarity and that also maintains their individual difference. In this world, all the objects can get joined together like a universal family in the huge relational mesh without depending on each other.