서정주의 후기 시에 나타난 회귀의식

Abstract

When Seo Jeong-ju got old, he was interested in his past and the hometown, which he spent his childhood. That is common for all human being. In his sixties, he tried to reenact the community image and ethnic origin to the Korean tradition by recollecting his childhood. Seo Jeong-ju's poetry comes from our culture and is tried to reconstruct the community order by presenting the original form of our hometown, which is disappearing because of the industrialization and urbanization. In his seventies, he accepts his own fate calmly and seeks the world of harmony and reconciliation. He seems to surrender himself to fate in some way. However, it is not the avoidance or giving up the reality at all. At the age of 70, he is old enough to transcend the greed and challenge in the world and appears to take everything in stride. This is related to the oriental traditional world of view and it shows the relaxation and transcendency in life. This idea helps our mind calm to live in a harsh and selfish society and give us a chance to look back our lives. For a while, there were some tendency to ignore his late works. However, his late works is as important as his early or middle-aged works. His late works means a lot because it shows another field of poem as well as his willing to continue his career. The field of his poem is enormous if we consider his late works in "Hwasajib". It is not too much to say that his poem includes human and world. Just to consider his late works in this report, his poem represents one's life and universal sentiment. Besides, this sentiment arouses sympathy because it comes from his personal experience. Although Seo Jeong-ju is underestimated because of his lack of historical view, he is one of the greatest poet in Korea.