이육사 시의 사회주의 의식 연구

Abstract

Most studies on poems of Lee Yuk Sa have been conducted from the perspective of nationalism. Given his life and works, however, it is required to interpret his poems in terms of socialist consciousness. Lee Yuk Sa joined Uiyuldan to come into contact with anarchism and Marxism as socialist ideologies. Then he received socialism ideology education in earnest when he entered Chosun Revolution School of Military and Politics established by Uiyuldan in 1932. His proses and the records of his testimony drawn up by Japanese investigators also show his activities as a socialist. In this respect, it is necessary to study his works from the viewpoint of socialism. With respect to poems, socialist ideology can be easily found in such poems as Hwanghon or Twilight(1935), Let’s Sing A Star (1936), and Haejosa or Words of the Sea Tide(1937). These poems describe the ardent hope for the advent of a new era and the emergence of a free and equal society for the masses. Those themes are considerably consistent with the themes often adopted by socialist poets in those days. Considering the fact that national resistance is combined with the socialist revolutionary spirit in his poems, socialist nationalism seems to characterize his poetic world.