This paper aimed to considering the aesthetic project and literary act of socialists in the early 1920`s. This paper specially focused on Yun, Ja-young who was typical socialist at the time. These people were not spotlight in the history of korean mod...
This paper aimed to considering the aesthetic project and literary act of socialists in the early 1920`s. This paper specially focused on Yun, Ja-young who was typical socialist at the time. These people were not spotlight in the history of korean modern literature. Because they seem to standing between the literary and the non-literary. However they had lived in the formative period of korean modern literature, thus they are provided of exemplary case of that period. It was the meaning of Yun`s act that focused in chapter two. His act had not only the meaning of socialist movement but also aesthetic practice. Socialism have been the aesthetic as well as the social and political project in that time. For they wished to liberating of labor and aestheticizing of world at the same time. In this respect, Yun`s exile to Shanghai was not only his political decision but also aesthetic practice.It was the formal peculiarity of Yun`s poems in the early 1920`s that focused in chapter three. He made use of free verse and Sijo at the same time specially in the way back(回程). The form of free verse and Sijo coexist in this work. Free verse here acted as method that expressed of the concreteness of world and the inside of a poet. In contrast, Sijo acted as method that expressed of the idea of community. This double form was originated in the request that the concreteness of world and the idea of community were embodied in a work at once.