한국 현대시에 나타난 ‘서울’의 문학지리학적 연구 -식민지 시대를 중심으로

Abstract

This thesis studied on the configurations and its meanings of 'Seoul' in Korean modern poetry especially of the colonial times with humanistic geography. Seoul showed an aspect of typical colonial dual city that enhanced the national or class distinctions. Gwang-gyun Kim, Pal-yang Park, Hwa Yim, Jang-hywan O's poems were representative of the aspects and geographical images of colonial capital Seoul whose colonial modernity was at its ripe maturity. Gwang-gyun Kim experienced fascination as well as alienation from Seoul's unfamiliar scenery, and observed it as outsider. He felt a sense of isolation and stagnation heartly, comparing himself and his hometown with Seoul that had been grown into modern city. The isolation and sadness in Gwang-gyun Kim's poetry was not vague sentimentality but acute self conscious about colonial modernity. Pal-yang Park experienced intense fascination and confusion in modern city Seoul. He was contradictory position as a member of a colonial policy's assistance and a critical intellectual. So his poetry showed the most important problem of those days by confused mind as a colonial subject. Hwa Yim was a poet of Seoul birth, and he made an expression of Jong-no especially. Jong-no was the typical place of national capital and struggle for anti-colonial. This poet saw through the meaning of Jong-no, and tried to practice the National Liberation movement. His special interest and solidarity about Jong-no reflected the purpose of anti-colonial subjects who wanted to preserve their identity. Jang-hywan O's the capital is a poem that takes a view of all about Seoul the capital of colony. He observed and criticized the illness of modernization in Seoul. He pierced into the national and hierarchial inequality flooded in whole Seoul. This poem especially excelled the realistic description of corrupt aspection of Seoul. The poet forecasted pessimistically about colonial capital that changed going wrong rapidly. Seoul in Korean modern poetry especially of the colonial times with humanistic geography was the concrete living space where revealed special political and historical experience of those days. The poets of those days expressed their anti-colonial identity with complicated mind like alienation, chaotic state, resistance, critique etc. Because of these geographical image, we could know in detail the special aspect of colonial modernity.