The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the time consciousness of
Park Jae-sam's early poetry through the duration(durée). Park Jae-sam
shows the time consciousness as the duration in his works. Though po
etic persona in his poems is changed sometimes into a community, som
etimes into a individual persona, 'time of duration' stays the same as u
sual. The previous studies on time consciousness of Park Jae-sam's po
etry were carried out within the framework of the analepsis about the
past or the circular time. But analepsis and circular time mean only the
disconnected time. Therefore previous studies were unable to explain t
he continuity of time and positive future in Park Jae-sam's poetry. For
this reason this thesis adopted the 'duration' theory of Bergson in the
analysis of Park Jae-sam's early poetry.
The duration of Bergson is the process in which the past is diffused
and goes forward to the future. According to his theory of time, the pa
st, the present and the future occur simultaneously. The present is ove
rlapped with the past. And the present, that is made with the past, advance for the future. This continuous time is the duration of Bergson. A
nd the Bergson's duration includes the 'becoming' moving toward a futu
re. The becoming is a constantly varying creative time. The time of Pa
rk Jae-sam's early poetry accords with the duration of Bergson. The p
oet doesn't flashback to the past, but actualize it, and shows the beco
ming by hoping for the time.
In Chapter 2 are analyzed the actualization of a tale as the past and
the personification of the community as a poetic narrator in the Park
Jae-sam's early poetry. The person of the past like 'Chunhyang',
'Heungbu', infiltrate into the present. And this is the actualization of
the past. The community is also influenced by the person of the past,
and this strengthens more and more the unity of the community.
In Chapter 3 is analyzed the duration of the personal persona through
the identification with nature. The society was rapidly industrialized
after the Korean War. Accordingly, the community spirit was
continually weakening. From this moment in the Park Jae-sam's poetry
the personal persona start to appear. In there also holds fast the
duration through the natural objects as 'haze', 'wind', 'tree', 'sea'.
In Chapter 4 is analyzed the becoming toward the positive future and
the recovery followed by the becoming. The becoming is the one of
duration's characters. It is extended to the past, the present, and the
future. In Park Jae-sam's poetry all kinds of the becoming are going
forward to the future and in the moment of the becoming take place
the healing.
And to conclude, the time consciousness revealed in Park Jae-sam's
poems has the continuous nature. Therethrough he tries to overcome
the harsh realities of the life and retains the duration of time to meet the needs of the times.