김여정 시에 나타난 공간의 존재론적 의미 연구

Abstract

This study aims to explore the inner world of the poet, Kim Yeo-jung, by focusing on the patterns of space that appear in her poems. In Kim Yeo-jung’s poems, spaces persistently emerge from the early to late poems and take different shapes, such as seas, islands, or mountains. The space is an essential component of Kim Yeo-jung’s poems, and studying it is to understand her world of poetry. In the early poems, the seas are still vast and dynamic, but they rather work as oppression to hinder the positive inner world. In particular, the dynamic seas remind the poet of the heartbreaking scars she had after her breakup. As a result, the poet realizes that she is just a trivial being in front of the sea and experiences pains that come with bleeding. The flowing blood that appeared in her poems symbolizes the zenith of pains and despairs that come from the wounds of love. The poet should keep the despairs from the breakup, and the sea becomes a space that triggers the pain of making ‘one bite of my flesh.’ In the poems of her middle years, the island becomes a space for embracement. The islands are not the space of loneliness and wild winds, but the space of embracement that can address her scars like the Virgin Mary. At the same time, the glass island, which is made from glass all around, has a state of freedom without any boundaries. This makes everything that exists inside the glass island transcend the borders, and the glass island becomes a space of solidarity that everything wants to live together in harmony. After all, the poet recovers from the wounds of love through islands, and she further takes the possibilities of finding another love. Mountains in the later poems become the transcendental space. Some later works identify the poetic narrator with the mountains. The poet gains vitality through mountains. The phrase that ‘the soaked fallen leaves in my mind’ are ‘melting’ with warm blood means that her challenges have been addressed, and that is where the boundaries between oneself and others become transcended. The mountain’s vitality and ascending values make the poet experience the expansion of the pure being, even though the poet herself is weak, and form a stable inner world.