소시(小詩)의 문학사적 맥락을 둘러싼 단상 = The Literary Historical Context of the Short Poem

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Reconstructing the literary-historical context in which the "Short Poem" originated and ended offers an opportunity to understand the period primarily categorized as a Short Poem in literary history. Furthermore, this study may assist us in comprehending the context of the poetry field at that time.
After the New Literature Movement, the era during which Zhou Zuoren, who was accumulating cultural capital in the literature field, developed the theory of Short Poem coincides with the early period of creation when the creation of Short Poem became active. A series of works, including Zhou Zuoren's translations of Japanese haiku and tanka and his published critiques on this forms, are closely connected to the rise in popularity of Short Poem. At the same time, the role of the Literary Research Society, which contributed to the distribution and spread of Zhou Zuoren’s translated poems and theories, cannot be overlooked. In the process in which Short Poem was conceived, their claims and agreements intertwined, and this literary phenomenon facilitated an environment in which the Short Poem could flourish. The role of the Literary Research Society was to provide socio-cultural capital that could publicize and expand the form of the Short Poem that originated from Zhou Zuoren, and perhaps was not entirely intended by him.
If we emphasize the ‘length’ of poetry, given the fact that Zhou Zuoren translated and disseminated short poems such as Japanese haiku, his translations could be perceived as akin to the ‘form’ of the Short Poem.
However, the pursuit of a short and concise Poem was a new literary attempt to move toward images of implication and symbolism. The popularity of the Short Poem was not a fleeting phenomenon that flourished briefly and then ceased, but rather a transitional phenomenon before the emergence of symbolist poetry.