기형도와 90년대 -‘환멸’이라는 형식과 ‘선언’을 대신한 ‘잠언’

Abstract

Reading Gi Hyung-do covers not only interpreting text, but interpreting his death and “Gi Hyung-do syndrome”. This is related to reading the 90s in connection with the 80s. With this assumption, this article reads GI Hyung-do’s poem with the keyword ‘disillusionment’. Through this work, this article analyzes the process by which readers reading GI Hyung-do perform mourning for the 80s. This article analyzes the disillusionment revealed by the ‘elderly subject’ of Gi Hyung-do with the ‘disillusion’, a common emotion of Korean society in the early ‘90s. And that proverbial sentences can be interpreted as a substitute for the function of the ‘declaration’ of the ‘80s. This article aims to read Gi-Hyung-do’s sudden death, his text, and the actual situation of Korean society at that time in close relation. To make this work meaningful, the reader's experience of reading his poetry in the early 90s should be directly referenced. When the individual experiences of the young people who read his poetry can be explained by universal experience, the assumptions in this article can be proved to be true. As a partial work of this project, this article focused primarily on analyzing Gi Hyung-do’s poem itself.