정호승 시에서 ‘사건의 결과인 죽음’의 형상화 양상과 함의

Abstract

This study analyzes the embodiment of death in the early poetry of Ho-seung Jeong as the context of the events. Most of his early poetry is based on historical events, and it’s got the idea from fact that the poet's gaze touched on “death caused by the event” rather than the event itself. In the 1970s and 1980s, the events that dominated Korean society such as industrialization, war, and military dictatorship forced deaths to be embodied in a way and what meaning was given to those deaths. In the poetry, the embodiment of the death event is achieved through the arrangement of the events and repetition of the dominant. By juxtaposing two events crossing time and space in one poem, or by chronologically arranging one event to pass through several poems, it gives meaning to the death event in the historical and social horizon and calculates its implications. It also reinforces the meaning of death through repetition and variation of the dominant, and request the mourning, and directs the repetitive generate of ‘power of resistance’. Jeong Ho-seung's early poetry that sings about death in the real world takes place in a space where the subject disappears. Also, by repeating the death event, it reminds us that death is constantly toward us, but does not reduce the death to the negativity of confrontation. Rather, by repeatedly imagining real events, it reminds us that death is constantly toward us while acting as a driving force from negative to positive. It reminds us that death is constantly directed at us by repeatedly embodiment the actual event. In addition, it is significant in that it reveals the subject of death that was manipulated and concealed by the dominant discourse. Jeong Ho-seung's poem persistently reflects on death forced by reality. Based on this reflection on death, Jeong Ho-seung hopes for a positive and future-oriented life that inevitably must come. In this respect, Jeong Ho-seung's poems show the world of poetry that is faithful to historical perception. The significance of this study is to clarify that it should not be limited to evaluating Hoseung Chung's early poetry as poems of love and hope based on the emotion of universal sadness, and evaluating Hoseung Chung's poetic attitude as contemplative.