Study of Modern Poetry Illustrations in Textbooks : Focusing on the Works Included in High School Korean and Literature Textbook

This paper aims to analyze illustrations included in the poetry section of the current high school Korean language and literature textbooks. Illustrations presented with poetry texts in literature education can provide a more specific and active opportunity to appreciate poetry through interaction with readers. This paper examines what kind of aesthetic effects illustrations presented in textbook sections exhibit when combined with poetry texts, and examines the types of illustrations that maximize readers’ recognition and response to poetic elements. This is to lay the foundation for more elaborate planning of poetry reading using illustrations in poetry education, and to examine the aesthetic characteristics and limitations of illustrations from the perspective of poetry education. Accordingly, this paper maintains that poetry and illustrations can be related in various ways to the reader’s reading process, and presents the function and role of illustrations in modern poetry through the implementation of illustrations in textbook sections. Efforts to utilize and produce illustrations based on the requirements that illustrations must have in poetry education should be carried out in earnest.