순수시의 계보와 한계 - 시론과 시의 상관관계를 중심으로 -

Abstract

This thesis aims to examine the significance and limitations of pure poetry and poetics in modern Korean poetry. Pure poetry believes it ideal that poetic words are not downgraded to the mere vehicle of meaning, neither being subordinate to a narrator or an author, nor calling or representing an object. These conditions suggest that pure poetry lacks the means to realize its ideal. The nonsense poetry of Kim Chun-su have three overlapping layers of pure poetry: pure poetry as opposed to society-participatory poetry; ontological pure poetry that blocks contamination of impure concepts; and semantic poetry, which stops real meaning. The closest to the essence of pure poetry is the second type of poetry which consists of another meaning conveyed by the signifiant; Signifiant, in this case, excludes the tone of sound or the message in the poem as an integration of the context of the poem, resulting from the combination or collision of poetic words. Oh Kyu-Won connected the diagram of meaning (=concept=impure) versus meaninglessness (=ontology=pure) of Kim Chun-Su to the axes of metaphor and metonymy. He established his poetics denying the former and pursuing the latter. Oh Kyu-Won’s raw image poetry, however, does not exclude concept or expel interpretation (or metaphor as a strong vehicle of it) of a subject. Lee Seung-Hoon tried to exclude a specific object and came to the following conclusion: “There is nothing poetic, nor is there a poem.” Pure poetry is like Beedaesang (objectless) Poetry given that it does not seek the rationale for existence outside the language. Pure poetry is different, however, in that it establishes its existential and independent essence through “not seeking.”Sung Chan-Kyung pursued the maximum density of meaning. However, the fact that connotation, nuance and appearance of word sound sought after by Ilja (one letter) Poetry are already contaminated and Ilja Poetry requires countless footnotes reveals that Milhaek (meaning of poetic words being highly condensed) Poetry has its ideal at an unattainable level.