마야코프스키와 김수영의 정치시: 비교연구를 위한 시론(試論)

Abstract

Vladimir Mayakovsky and Kim Soo-Young are comparable with each other in that they are representing poetic avant-garde in Russia and Korea, respectively, and they both opened a new prospect in the field of modern political and participatory poetry. Mayakovsky defined his poetry as poetry of steel in his poems published posthumously. “Poetry of steel” is an expression condensing Mayakovsky’s avant-garde perspective that sees poetry in the same line with politics. In his prose released posthumously which discusses the relations of poetry and politics, Kim Soo-Young made clear that poetry is “pushing whole body forward with whole body.” Based on this statement, his poetry and poetics are called as “poetry of whole body.” For Mayakovsky and Kim Soo-Young, poetic avant-garde and political avant-garde are not conflicting with each other, rather they are organically unified and mutually defining. For Mayakovsky and Kim Soo-Young, poetry is rebellious by nature, and political aspect is fundamental to their poems. It is well known that Mayakovsky emphasized innovativeness as a fundamental principle of writing poems. He constantly stressed that new substance comes out of new form, showing that he keenly understood hidden value system and actual power of language-material-form. Kim Soo-Young can be deemed as a descendant of futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky since Kim also consistently pursued innovation of poetry and recognized the power of language(“poetry as power”).