백석·이용악 시의 비교 연구

Abstract

Baek Seok and Lee Yong-ak are poets who showed literary activities in late 1930s and before and after the Liberation. As they were kidnapped to the North Korea and lived there, they were hidden behind the history of literature. However there were a few studies on them after the lifting of the ban. This study will provide a good chance to identify how reality of the North area was at the end of Japanese imperialism through comparison of description on loss of their home and recognitions on reality between the two poets. Baek Seok and Lee Yong-ak have very different aspects although they have a few things in common such as public presentation of their works at the same period. Baek was born in Pyunganbukdo and Lee was born in Hamgyongbukdo. They present their poetic emotions of hometowns outstandingly. However, Baek represents his home through missing while Lee represents his home through sorrow. The former focuses on his childhood, that is, the past at his home, but Lee focuses on reality of colonized country. Also, the two poets present common experiences such as wandering away from their homes in their poetry. So, their representations on missing and loss of families and hometown are revealed here and there. In spite of their same experiences such as feeling of loss and wandering, they express their feelings in different subjects and ways. Baek consoles his loneliness and difficulty through romance while Lee represents tiredness of wandering fully. Finally, Baek and Lee show different attitudes to recognition of reality though they see tragedies of the public during wandering in the same angle. Baek describes tough reality of the people as an observer and he thinks it can be overcome with his own pride, but Lee presents active recognition on reality in his poetry that reality of colonization can be overcome. Baek and Lee represent abundance of hometown, an archetypal property and tragedy of reality based on native emotion in harsh reality of colonized country connected with cold weather of the North area, and expands their objects beyond personal tragedy to life of the public. Their recognitions on reality are opposite: negative and positive in their poetry. The two poets work as mirrors to reflect reality of the time and life of the public. So, this study suggests that more comparative studies on them and other authors of the North who describe reality of the North are necessary.