윤동주 시에 나타난 공간 인식의 한 양상 - 일본 유학 시절의 시를 중심으로

The Aspect of Spatial Recognition in the Poem of Yoon Dong-Ju - with the Poem Written during the Study Abroad in Japan

I have explained the spatial recognition of Yoon's poem which were written after his study abroad in Japan. At the first time in Japan, he found out streets filled with conflict which was derived from his unestablishment in Japan and showed his emotion toward the recurrence to the place where he felt comfortable and familiar. This was well described in his emotion of loneliness and isolation. Even with the word "room" which he often used, he did not recognize it as cozy place which was separated from the outer world but as <a room with tatami floor in foreign country> which was in distance with himself. Also he did not find relief in this "room" but represented his will to go forward out of the "room" toward the world. In this case, he showed a different aspect about the "room" before his study abroad. Before his study abroad, the "room" was represented as the place of centripetal power where he came back form the world. However, during his study abroad, the "room" was changed to the center place where he revealed his will to move on toward to the murky world. It is the expansion of horizontal space. This sort of expansion can be seen also with the expansion of vertical space in the poem 『Spring 2』. It distinguishes the difference of his recognition of space in his poem from ones before the study abroad in Japan. This can be analysed as one of the aspects of confrontation capacity which came out of the process of shaping himself in the foreign place, Japan.