근대 대중가요의 죽음 표상과 그 형상화 방식

Abstract

This paper attempts to extract death-related thoughts, images, and motifs from Korean classical poetry to find out how they are shaped, and to try to categorize them. Among them, the genres to be reviewed are New folk song, Short poetry, New song in the modern transition period. This study aims to explore the values and directions of life pursued by the people of the day through the representation of death implied in the popular song text. The perception of death that we could see in the modern popular song text is the emotions, reactions, and countermeasures that human figures feel in the disconnected worldview of life and death. Death is expressed differently depending on the times, situations, and genres, but it is basically an object that cannot be overcome, and the adaptive life that accepts it accounted for most of the work. Of course, the feeling of disappointment, regret, and loneliness about it were also included in the work. Under these realistic conditions, there was an expression of willingness to enjoy the present, an effort to find the meaning of life, and an attitude to preserve the value of a finite life, accepting that there was nothing to do about “how to live”.