2000년대 이후 한국시의 도시 표상 연구 - 이기인·조동범·서대경 시를 중심으로

Abstract

From the perspective of environmental humanities, this paper examines the representations of in Korean poetry since the 2000s. In this paper, I studied the new problem consciousness and aesthetics that have changed from the previous period through the expression of spatial consciousness and images implied by urban representations in poems of Lee Ki-in, Cho Dong-beom, and Seo Dae-kyung. In Lee’s poem, the city is a discriminatory space that reflects the social structure that has become more unequal due to neo-liberalism. He indirectly shows his ethical choices through his aesthetic strategy of staring into every nook and cranny of the lives of the weak living in the shadow of the big city. Cho sharply captures the shadow of death, which is implicit in the consumption of urban space. He puts the solitude and danger of a highly civilized and capitalist city in an apocalyptic landscape. In Seo’s poems, the city is an absolute place of life that cannot be escaped even in dreams. Fantasy in his poem strengthens the reality, because he grasps the attributes of modern cities where human alienation has intensified through fantastic speculation. The cities that appear in their poems show generally ‘placelessness.’ Cities have become absolute spaces for everyone, but the characteristics of individual cities have disappeared, making it difficult to find their own identity. All three poets also show something in common in that they pay attention to the existence of humans alienated from the overwhelming urban space. As such, the aspect of city members being alienated from the community disproves the empty and precarious life of the city. The representations of cities in the 2000s are far from the future of a sustainable city. The urban representations in Korean poetry in the 2000s present an important task for the sustainability of the city through serious human alienation lurking in the shadow of a spectacular city reached in the process of growth-oriented development.