민재식의 「속죄양」에 나타난 시의 장형화와 비평적 상상력

Abstract

Born in 1932, Min Jae-shik was a poet that expressed the consciousness of times such as Liberation and Korean War. In his long poem The Scapegoat and his series poems Dissonance, Unfinished Reality, and Chapter 1, Paragraph 4, he proposed the current location of his homeland and future directions for it in the international situations. He especially depicted the confusing situations of Korea in the interests of USA, Russia, and China poetically in his series poem The Scapegoat. The first characteristic of his poems is the elongation tendency, which was the result of Elliot's influences and the request of the times. Min wrote his master's dissertation on Elliot, which demonstrates the close connections between the two poets. The second characteristic of his poems is critical imagination, which also has something to do with Wasteland by Elliot. Min scientifically analyzed the problems with the reality through his critical imagination by using a documentary-style objective viewpoint sometimes. The third characteristic of his poems is Christian imagination. He saw his homeland as the scapegoat of the world in the 1950s and criticized the West represented by Christianity. There is also a need to pay attention to his dramatic composition method. As he mentioned himself, he set a stage and had many different characters make a comment according to his dramatic composition method. His imagination eventually proposed Cheongsanbyeolgok, a work of traditional imagination, as an overcoming measure.