김수영 시에 나타난 도시의 시간과 공간 인식

Cognition of time and space of cities expressed in Su-Young Kim’s poetry

If modern literature is a kind of product of cities, to examine the relationship between cities and literature is one of the basic tasks in researching modern literature. Cities are in the indispensable relationship with the forms of artistic expression. To respond and adapt to shocking experience of cities is the very form of artistic expression. Su-Young Kim responds to this experience of modern cities with new sensitivity. By overcoming contradictory modernity, he shows his cognition of new modernity, that is, aesthetic modernity. As for him, cities are expressed as the time of speed, which is linked with modernity. However, in his poetry, modern life that is symbolized as speed is not always refused. By overcoming contradictory modernity, not by simply criticizing civilization, he shows his intention to establish new modernity. This intention is revealed as new modernity, that is, aesthetic modernity, in understanding urban space. Aesthetic modernity that is revealed through recognition of urban space is expressed as recognizing emptiness of the realities through facing up to the realities. Contingency, temporary nature and emptiness of urban space are contemporary phenomena found in modern cities, that is, contemporaneity. Su-Young Kim gives a meaning to emptiness by recognizing that emptiness of urban space is the very feature of the present and showing it as it is. It is to give eternal nature to contingency and temporary nature, which is a characteristic of aesthetic modernity.