1950년대 후반 시단의 재편과 현대시 개념의 논리 -<한국시인협회>(1957~1962)를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper aims to study the independently reorganizational aspects of the Korean poetical circles in the late 1950s through the process of the organization of the Korean Poets Association ("Si-Hyup" hereinafter) with Cho Jihoon as a central figure. After the 'shock of the art academy (the Yesul-won)', Cho Jihoon planned and organized the Si-Hyup following the transition period of the Korean cultural circles such as the division of the literary circles and the increasing establishment of the special sub-committees. Particularly, the Si-Hyup, after the Korean Liberation, actively incorporated the modernism writers who could not be included in the traditional epic poem’s genealogy that has been dominated by ‘the orthodox writers of The Korean Writers Association’ into its new organization through their appearance on the literary magazine and the operational activities within the organization. Considering the structure of the poetical circles had been in confrontation between traditional and modernism poetry, this shift suggests the new possibility of Korean poetry embracing the traditional and modernism poetry. Above all, by emphasizing the unique characteristics of Koreanness, Cho Jihoon set up the notion of the modern poetry represented as the ‘lyric poetry’. This is the product of another institutionalization and idealization to extend the denotation of the traditional lyric poetry with making the modernism poetry into the Other. The Cho Jihoon’s conception of the modern poetry which was based on the logic of the aesthetics and politics of the lyric poetry began to appear in earnest when Kim Suyoung was rewarded the first Si-Hyup Best Writing as the course of the institutionalization. The Si-Hyup claimed to stand for the pan-literary awards which excluded the external aspect of the works, such as the literary careers, literary tendencies and kinds of generation, and moved toward the specialized organization of poetry with the sophisticated style. Therefore, the first award of the Si-hyup could not but to fully reflect the Cho Jihoon’s position that tried to calm controversy between the traditional and modern poetry by selecting the exemplary works of the modern poetry. The poems of Kim Sooyoung were not mentioned frequently in the poetical circles until the mid-1950s and only a literary critic, Choi Ilsoo put a high valuation on his uniqueness of modernism poetry. The Best Writing Award of Kim Sooyoung matched up the period that his poem Non has come to close to the symbols of traditional lyric poetry, that is, human, nature, and the East, and an active itemized discussion on each subject was taking place within the literary world. In other words, his works for best writing award were appreciated as the text that implied the integrating possibility between tradition and modernism, and used for fulfilling the logical conceptions of the modern poetry in Cho Jihoon.