This study is toward the purpose that ascertains the relationship between the narration, place undergoing, and poetic idea space of Lee Yong Ahk's poetries. In 1903s, 'narration' came out as the new form of Korean poetries, and Lee Yong Ahk's poetries...
This study is toward the purpose that ascertains the relationship between the narration, place undergoing, and poetic idea space of Lee Yong Ahk's poetries. In 1903s, 'narration' came out as the new form of Korean poetries, and Lee Yong Ahk's poetries are one of the representative poetries, which have a narrative characteristic in 1930s. In his poetries, narration is adopted in the aesthetic frame, and 'spatiality' makes the aesthetic frame. The poetic idea space is the major component, which makes the aesthetic frame, while the poetic idea space of Lee Yong Ahk's poetries combines with the narration.
Also, the combination of the narration and spatiality is one of the characteristics of the Modernism poetries in the Western. However, his poetries are different from the Modernism poetries that Lee Yong Ahk's poetries focus on the collective materials and consciousness. The narration and spatiality, which are of his poetries, are not borrowing the characteristics of the Modernism poetries, but the two characteristics are accommodated by the poet's internal requests and surroundings, which Lee Yong Ahk belonged in. Specially, the spatiality of his poetries is relative to his extensive place experiences. He had experienced wide places since his childhood, for about thirty years, while moving around Japan, Manchuria, the Maritime Province of Siberia, and Korea, and then these experiences motivate the characteristics of places to his poetic idea spaces. His poetic idea space has a different meaning when it symbolizes each place, and this shows that his poetic idea space is composed of his place identity.
The experience of places is the source of the organizing his poetic space.
Poetries' formal characteristics are built up while they are interacting with his personal, social, and historical conditions. Thus, the narration and spatiality have to be figured out in the correlation in the poet's era and his status, a colonial. The narration, which Lee Yong Ahk adopted, has a intimate connection to the world of poetry in Korea in 1930s. At that time, the fact that lots of poetries which showed narrations came out shows that the form of poetries, narrations, was adopted by the historical request. Literary 'allness' discussion in 1930s, the viewpoint that poetries are defined as a whole structure, is the significant background of the adoption of narrations. While figuring out the structure of poetries, its partial rhythm was able to be weaken. In the literary 'allness' discussion, the narration is adopted in the world of poetry in Korea, as the forms of modernistic culture, reality reflection, and subject perception. These three aspects led to study the beginning of the adoption of Lee Yong Ahk's narration.
The places where Lee Yong Ahk experienced were formatting the connection between a colonial ruler-Japan, a colony-Korea, another colony- Manchuria, and the arena of competition of powerful countries-the Maritime Province of Siberia. This connection is the geographical structure that Japan imperialism brought. Therefore, Lee Yong Ahk's experiencing places has to be reflected the social and historical coherence in that ear.
This study focuses on to ascertain Lee Yong Ahk's experiencing places. After Korea's liberation, I supplement the limits of actual evidential information, due to his going to North Korea, with historical events and discussion analyses, which are surrounding of the experiencing places. I apply the other written information of writers and public people who experienced the same places at the same ear, as supplements. The experiencing places through the supplements become the base of the analysis of Lee Yong Ahk's poetic idea space. As a result, Lee Yong Ahk's experiencing places and poetic idea space are materialized as the subjects: Japan-the split subject from the Modernism, Manchuria-the hardness of nomads and reality reflection, the Maritime Province of Siberia-the subject that wants to cure the division and recurring to his childhood, and Korea-the subject of ashamedness and oblivion. The characteristic of this study is to discover the specific parts of Lee Yong Ahk's experiencing places, which we have not figured out so far due to its limits of the actual evidential information. Also, under the experiences, this study materializes the meaning of the poetic idea space and the changes of poetical subjects.
As a whole analyzing result, the division in Modernism, the expansion of reality reflection, the cure of the division, and the desire of oblivion, which are belonging in the poetical subjects of Lee Yong Ahk's poems within a poetic space, are the same with the Modernism reflection, reality reflection, and setting subjects up-the adoption narrations of the Korean poets in 1930s. This means that Lee Yong Ahk, who was a representative poet as a poetic subject, had the same internal request with the other poets at the era, and this means that the desire applied to adopt not only the characteristic of spatiality but also narrations.
Lee Yong Ahk, who was a representative poet as a poetic subject, was not able to be free in his status, a Korean colonies, but also a divisional subject. This poet's complication is implied in his narration and spatiality, his poetry forms. Specially, Lee Yong Ahk's modern narrative adoption can be the trying for the subject setting to give an identity to self-dissociative. However, the reason that Lee Yong Ahk could choose giving up writing when he conflicted himself on the crossroad of Japanism was because of his 'experiences,' unlike Choi Jae Suh, who did the similar process with Lee Yong Ahk and sank to political totalitarianism. When Choi Jae Suh tried to define a subject in the theory without the reality of Colonized Korea, Lee Yong Ahk experienced the detailed and sophisticated reality of diverse places. To Lee Yong Ahk, 'experiencing' expanded his reality consciousness and built the poetic base, which inspired the concreteness toward the narration and poetic space. Also, it was the understandable foundation that protected him to sink to political totalitarianism.
In the process of 'Experiencing,' Lee Yong Ahk built up the aesthetic structure and frames of the new poetries characterizing narrations through the form, the combination of narrations and spatiality. Thus, in the Korea poetry history, Lee Yong Ahk's status need to be progressively developed as that he is a nationalism poet, who searched for Manchuria nomadic problems and the factuality based on his experiences. Through the attempt about the aesthetic structure, he should be revalued as a poet who built and designed the frames of narrations and spatiality in the Korean contemporary poetries.