죠르지오 아감벤의 “시의 끝”으로 본 김명미와 오규원의 시세계

초록

This paper explores and examines philosophical meanings and significance of ‘the end of poem’ utilizing Giorgio Agamben’s poetics in his The End of the Poem as a theoretical scaffolding. The paper delves into two poetic worlds: a Korean American poet, Myung Mi Kim’s avant-garde poetic world and a Korean poet, Oh, Kyu-Won’s philosophical and satirical poetic world. Agamben, tracing the genealogy of poetic meanings of conflict between sound and sense, enjambment, caesura, and the end of the poem in Western, especially Italian poems, claims that enjambment is a mark of existential significance of poem and that the end of poem signals the end of sound and meter as well as the beginning of philosophical thoughts. Accordingly, the paper claims that Myung Mi Kim in Penury unfolds the philosophical dialectic of the sound and the sense, which disinters a skeleton of fragmentary words saturated with speaker’s painful experience of war and exploitations perpetrated by global capitalism and xenophobia. Meanwhile, Oh, Kyu-Won’s poems reveal philosophical meanings of the clash between pure language and reified language which results in philosophical inquiries of the meaning of the end of poem.

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