1930년대 시에 나타난 가족의 양상과 그 의미

A Study on the Family of 1930"s Korean Modern Poetry

  The object of this writing is to examine the family aspects and their significance expressed in the Korean poems of the 1930s. This object is based on the judgement that the family consciousness represented in those poems show "modernity". What "the modernity" of the family consciousness in this context means is that the idea of "Families (multiform family)" is not only self-consciously explored but also extended, beyond "the Family (uniform family)" ideology.   Yi Sang, Yim Hwa and Baek Seok are the representative poets of the 1930s who display the emergence and real aspect of the idea of Families (multiform family).      In his poems, Yi Sang articulates the idea that an individual precedes a family and an individual as a member of a family is related with market economy. He expresses himself in favor of individuality against the ideology of family honor. He also sees a vision of unprejudiced human relationships among individuals in opposition to the values centered on the blood-tied family.   Yim Hwa is a socialist and the family which he represents is tied with revolutionary companionship. In his poems set in this context, a community precedes an individual and the fulfillment of a socialist community overshadows a family.   In this sense, individuals are to feel connected to one another as a family only when they pursue the common value in achieving a revolution based on socialism.   The family represented in Baek Seok"s poems is basically a traditional and conservative one. The ideas of the large-family, patrilineal and consanguineous systems lie in his poems, though there appears some digression, which involves an interest in a Buddhist nun who leaves her family and renounces the world, and a scepticism of women"s chastity ideology.   As discussed above, the fact that the idea of the Families (multiform family) is prevalent in the Korean poems of the 1930s shows that even a family is not an ultimate and established group which bears any absoluteness but only a social construction, or a kind of system which is in a process of formation and undergoes shifts. This is an example early shown which explores the possibility that any social systems or values could be reconstructed after overcoming the violence of essentialism and hierarchy.