노천명의 자의식과 친일․애국시 연구

Abstract

Nho Chun Myung did a glamorous start as the first real modern female poet. She was valuated to have established a poetic world meeting the needs of modernism as she filled it with the moderation of emotion, balance of feelings, the subtle sensitivity and unique feminin poetic words through the inner self. But such literary valuations of Nho Chun Myung is focused only in her early works. And her life and literary path afterwards penetrated the extreme point of modern history and linked to her jail poetries and also her pro-japanism and pro-japanese poetries and the patriot-war poetries composed of reactions of forced labor and prison life. She made this choice based on the least of her self identity as an intellectual and poet or her inner sense, and this might have driven or gone with the choice and change of life and literature. Therefore, it would be meaningful to study a poet's self identity and how she chose and got through the extreme point of the historical situation, in order to understand more about the poet and her literary world. Especially, like the case of Nho Chun Myung, there are several works in her early poetic world expressing her self identity starting with the well-regarded 『Sanhorim』 and her other previous studies provided meaningful perspective to understand the poet's self identity. In this article, around this perspective and critical mind it is to consider Nho Chun Myung's self identity and it's characteristic and to study how the self identity is reflected on the poetries which had passed the extreme edge of pro-japanese poetry and patriot-war poetry.