고향의식과 주체성 인식 : 백석

An Awareness of Hometown and a Sense of Sovereignty:Baek Seok

Baek Seok is a representative poet who formalizes the folk world into poetry. He adopts folklore in various ways - via an awareness of hometown and a sense of sovereignty, via popular folk belief reflecting community life, via research on the populace through games, and via friendly relationship between human and nature. In his poems, childhood is not just a past moment in a scale of time structure, but has a meaning of the national/ethnic archetype. By realizing the national archetype, Baek Seok concretely presented folklore as a part of the national archetype during the suppressing period of colonization. Especially, he resented the community of such an archetypal life by using the folk dialects. In doing so, he displayed a new language which greatly vary from the western modernity.