고석규 시의 고향상실의식 연구

Abstract

This paper tried to study Ko Seok-kyu’s poem world to which he had opened new poetic possibilities in the poetic literature of 1950s. Ko Seok-kyu was a poet and a literary critic who had managed to internalize the existential recognition paradoxically, based on the experience of life and death in a time of war and ravage. In Chapter2, it is analized that Ko Seok-kyu had managed to crystallize fear image by war expressed in his poem and image of battlefield in opposing composition where the quick and the dead co-exist, that is, the irrational horrors of war, violent human nature as a devil and painful griefs on the basis of poetic methodology like the negative and the positive, scepticism and defiance and tragedy and comedy. In Chapter 3, it is considered that his trauma by war and national division had changed from space of loss of hometown to space of loss of mental home. His consciousness of orphan was expressed in the shape of loss of self identity and defiance against despair and reality. Therefore, it is studied that longing for home and sence of guilt had more and more intensified consciousness of orphan to narrator and was well expressed in his poem. In Chapter 4, metherhood to him was reflected in mountain, river and sea of hometown, and it was in apposition to image of water, freedom and human primitive impulse of life. Symbolism of water was in direct contact with return to motherhood. And it could be verified that he had tried to recover bankrupt self-identity by return to motherhood but it was a forbidden world, a returnless world and a death world. In Chapter 5, it was verified that Ko Seok-kyu’s paradox of death was acceptance of nonexistence, positive acceptance of death and, at the same time, freeing himself from self as the present existence. Also, it is studied that exposing the internality on the basis of such understanding, he accepted existential volitional symbol as his mission so that he had changed aim of life to will of over-come. Consequently, it can be verified that the feelings of loss of home was caused by existential irrationality and despair from war experience and korean division. He recognized death as “the anticipation of death” because he accepted that death is not end of life but the aggregation of meanings in life. Therefore, Ko Seok-kyu had stepped foot on road of over-come, that is, recovery to original state. Such is symbol of over-come in his life and literature.