1980년대 한국시의 ‘현실주의 낭만성’ 연구

Abstract

In Korean poetry in the 1980s, the foundation of poetic imagination was the question how to overcome the given reality. The poetic logic behind resisting a political situation, or in other words, an oppressive but obscure entity, was to position oneself in the most miserable situation. The “internalization of a sense of misery” was the most important poetic methodology to the 1980s poet, and such methodology was derived from an awareness of one’s situation, that there is no way out, no exit. Realism arises from such awareness of one’s situation. Realism is not so much a desire to revolutionize reality but rather a psychological structure twisted and distorted by reality, a way to understand real problems by transposing them as one’s own, and thus realism falls under the realm of modernism. But it also implies a resistance to accepting life as it is, and thus realism can be considered to be critical modernism. Such methodology was the logical structure underlying the subconscious of poets and their poetry in the 1980s. Such phenomenon is represented in the works of Hwang Ji Woo, Kim Myeong In, Jeong Ho Seung, Choi Seung Ho, Kim Ji Ha, etc., and these poets are frequently noted for clearly portraying the political nature of poetry. However, the political nature of poetry must be understood from an aesthetic perspective as the rendering of politics into a sensation, and the aesthetic accomplishment of poetry in the 1980s was that a horizon of rendering politics into a sensation within the realm of critical modernism was proposed, and that is where the significance of poetry in the 1980s in the history of literature can be found.