모더니즘시의 시각적 양상변화 - 김춘수시를 중심으로

Change in Visual Aspects of Modernism －Focused on Poetry by Kim Choon-su－

  Modernist poems have been criticized that its issue of expression hierarchy is just an experimental technique. But in the modern times, the obstacle has been overcome and modernist poems have been reshaped by another meta-discourse. Early modernism promotes development of new historical consciousness by contacting the modern age. This planning of modernity introdueced a new form and technique and suggests image and visual symbol. The sight of a modernist speaker forms a visual system, and then the system is changed by denial and resistance of modernism. Poet Kim Choon-su’s poem of meaninglessness tries to describe things by way of visualization with a strategy of shedding existing image. Description, a type of descriptive image, is none other than the technique of a camera that is the expressing tool of a speaker of modernist text. The text of Kim Choon-su refuses to ‘show’ the reality by the sight of a speaker of a modernist poem. This aims at fragmented juxtaposition of image and shedding existing image, and de-visual vocalization, ‘seeing voice’ by transforming repetition and rhythm of poetic language into a general view. This is shown in the technique of a poem of meaninglessness that refuses the symbol of the world and subjective by image and language, as well as the poetic meta-space. The poetic strategy of Kim Choon-su’s poem of meaninglessness brings about the poetic revolution, and even indicates the possibility of social revolution. The planning of a change in visuality of Kim Choon-su’s modernist poems is an alternative seeking to deny the violent and suppressive history. In addition, the poems of meaninglessness mean desperate efforts of a dynamic modernist to pursue intrinsic idea and reshape the subjective and world by overcoming self-consciousness.