이우걸 시조에 내포된 모더니티(modernity)의 일면

Abstract

By its intelligent insights into the modernity, Lee Ou-Gerl's world of shijos shows its important differences from his predecessors' shijos since the modern age as well as the classic shijos. On account of the contemporary shijos having to constitute their creative contents by putting the presence of a classic form of poetry in the temporality of the modernity, it would be inevitable that the world of them has contacted with the modernity. Lee Ou-gerl's shijos are to be most representatives of them combining naturally a traditional genre with sharp cognitions of the modernity. This paper has tried to analyze a problem of the modernity in his shijos more synthetically than ever, by allowing their differences from the traditional shijos, and to illuminate their significances. For a concrete discussion, this has analyzed problems of three subjects as ①the 'I' as an object of thought, ②to discovering the dailiness and to cognizing the reality, and ③the insight into the inhuman relationality with respect to the modernity in his shijos. In the result, with his pose of reflecting or skepticizing over again problems of his individuality, his world of shijos shows markedly its repetitive disclosure of the self-consciousness of modern men incapable of being entirely solved with the derivative principle or idea of life from the circularity and aestheticality of nature, its security of a poetic reality by taking widely the modern dailiness into his shijos, and its attention to the derivative inhuman relationality from our living world. The fact is that the contemporary shijos within an influence of the traditional genre have maintained their vitalities in agonies of succeeding contemporarily to the tradition. This is related to a tendency of the anti-modernism in most of the contemporary shijos. Lee Ou-Gerl grafts the diverse and concrete problems derived from the living world since the modern age upon the formal beauty of traditional shijos transformed naturally by him. This trait of his world of shijos has the significance of his literary effort to solve simultaneously two tasks of the succeeding to a tradition and the securing a contemporaneity.