창조적 전통으로서의 목월 문학 = Poems of Tradition and Re-creation

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Park Mok-wol`s early poems are highly musical. It is a result of being influenced by folk poetry that is a branch of modern Korean poetry. However, although his scheme of rhythm was inherited from traditional poetry, he succeeds in creating anew his own unique rhythm from what he has inherited. He abandons set-form verse and folk rhythm in later years, but the musicality in his poetry that is beyond compare with other poets, is a result of his effort in his early years to create his own rhythm. In creating nature poetry as well, he inherited the literary tradition of his predecessors, but also revised it and created a new order, such as perceiving nature as an object of objectivity, erasing human trace from the world of nature, and perceiving nature not as an abstract idea but as a specific phenomenon of here and now. Park Mok-wol was the first poet to perceive human existence in an existential way. Of course, there were poets like Yu Chi-hwan before Mok-wol, but the difference in the two poets lies in the fact that whereas Yu Chi-hwan pursued atheistic existence, Mok-wol explored the world of theistic existence. Therefore the fact that Park Mok-wol`s poetry in later years developed into that of Christian belief is no accident. Mok-wol not only inherited the tradition of the past era, but also opened a new world of poetry by re-creation and thus can be appraised as having made a great contribution in the history of modern Korean poetry.