山이 證言하는 歷史의 序曲 - 辛夕汀『山의 序曲』의 山과 序曲의 意味

The Prelude of History that a Mountain Testifies

『The Prelude of a Mountain』is Shin Suck-Jung's fourth anthology which was published in 1967 in memory of his 60th birthday. It is usual that an anthology in memory of one's 60th birthday is composed of one's masterpieces or retrospective poetry, but he named this anthology not 'The Prelude of a life' but 'The Prelude of a Mountain'. We will find the connotative meaning of this name through the poetry that is contained in this anthology. 'Mountain' is the historical site of the national tragedy. The history could mean the Mt. Halla of Jeju's 4.3 contention or the Odong-Do of the Yeosu and Suncheon's 10.19 incident or the tragic sites which were covered with people's blood. These sites testify the history to us through the sound of nature. 'Prelude' means the conquest of dark reality for the preparation for the main music of the affluent Korean history. This work fills the role of the prelude of an huge national epic poem. But the conscientious creation of poetry was hard because of foreign influence and military autocracy after the Korean Liberation in 1945. So this anthology keeps away from the pressure on discussion by not the poet's voice but the sound of nature, and by not the plain language but the metaphorical or symbolical language, and by not the presentation of the whole but the allusion of a section. 『The Prelude of a Mountain』means the prelude which performs with indirect language on the dark history that the historical site, the mountain should overcome.