박목월 시의 인지시학적 연구

A Study on the Mokweal’s Poetry in Cognitive Poetics

This dissertation, by adapting the methodology of cognitive poetry into Mok-Woel’s Poetry, examines cognitive systems and imaginative structures in different time periods. As a result, Mok-Woel’s Poetry, in regards to different sets of time periods, represents cognitive systems as follows. The main object of cognition in the early poetry is ‘nature’. The ‘nature’ is figured as pure and ideal sceneries through the poet’s imagination. Especially, it shows a cognitive characteristic of repressing subjective emotions and emotional involvement of the poetic speaker, ‘I’. The early poetry expresses idealized characteristic of pursuing the nature as Utopia based on the poet’s imagination. The main objects of cognition in the mid poetry are ‘human’ and ‘living’ based on living experiences. These ‘human’ and ‘living’ are voiced honestly and simply based on the poet’s direct personal experiences. It is especially different from the early poetry in that the poetic speaker expresses emotions and feelings freely based on subjective and emotional involvement. The mid poetry expresses human nature based on the poet’s experiences. The main objects of cognition in the late poetry are sufferings of ‘death’ and piety of ‘life’. The late poetry shows a cognitive characteristic of figuring a concept itself, such as this world and the world of the dead, reality and ideal, and separation and reunion. As compared to the mid poetry, the late poetry is more internalized and conceptualized. The late poetry expresses conceptually figured ontological nature of death and life.