김수영 시의 자유와 설움의 상관성 연구 - 탈식민주의 관점으로 -

Abstract

This study is to show the postcolonial identity through understanding the poems of Kim Sooyoung as a process of establishing self―identity of the modern subjects. Kim Sooyoung continually strives to pursue the existential freedom against the backwardness of Korea by internalizing of the modern subjects and by restructuring of the reality through his poems. Nonetheless, his poems reveal the self―contradicting reality of the postcolonial subjects, not securing the consistency of the modern subjects by themselves. Kim Sooyoung scores the existential freedom of individuals by establishing his own poetic space. The freedom, according to him, is poet’s responsibility, right, and manifestation of humanity. He shows his will to confront the external conditions of infeasible freedom to individuals by restructuring the grief and sorrow from desperate situations through critical awareness. Accordingly, his poetic space is the one which diverges from the external conditions and in which the freedom exists. To understand the distinctiveness of his poetic space is a very important clue to trace the various aspects of his poems. This, in summary, is the indispensible foundation to understand the core elements of his poems, such as the boredom of life and the fatigue of modern people, the abstrusity of a complex word with dual meaning, the abusive languages with the attitudes of anti―poetic and in―poetic, the internalized paradox and parody, the duet of love and death, and so on. This study interprets the poems of Kim Sooyoung from the perspective of post―colonialism, in order to contribute to establish the post―coloniality of Korea after colonized periods, from Japan occupation to Korean War and the division of Korean peninsula, by understanding Kim Sooyoung’s recognition and response toward the historical reality, and by interpreting the hidden desire of the modern subjects through the poems of Kim Sooyoung.