김우진 시의식 고찰

초록

The purpose of this study is to examine the aspect of development on theKim Woo-Jin’s poetic consciousness. The poetic consciousness of KimWoo-Jin is unfolded into ‘disapproval and conformity to Confuciantradition’, ‘admiration and longing for a new world’, and ‘the awareness ofdeath and the paradoxical meaning.’Previous research has suggested that he shows strong resistance andrejection to Confucian tradition and conventions due to his patriarchalfather’s strict attitude and the influence of expressionism that Kim Woo-Jinengrossed during his study abroad in Japan. However, there are limitationsthat Kim’s attitude toward tradition and convention cannot be explained onlyby his attitude of resistance and rejection. Rather, Kim Woo-Jin, who wasborn as the eldest son in Confucian families shows an attitude to practiceConfucian doctrine in his various works and diaries. Kim Woo-Jin, who constantly conflicted between himself and the world,reveals his poetic consciousness of moving into the new world, especiallythrough the medium of his mother who was the source of his dream. Thelonging and admiration for his mother, who died when he was five years old,becomes a powerful catalyst for Kim Woo-Jin for a new world even more. However, as Kim cannot reach the new world through her absent mother inreal life, he eventually goes to despair, which is the decisive driver of theawareness of death. In Kim’s poem, death does not mean the end of a simple physical life. Inhis poem, death means the paradoxical meaning that it is the beginning of anew life, and by its death it can obtain eternal rest and salvation. KimWoo-Jin’s paradoxical truth about death eventually served as a factor that ledhim to end his own life at the age of 29. Examining his poetic consciousness, Kim Woo-jin is widely known as aplaywright, but his life and literature are better expressed in poetry.

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