한시를 통해 본 송익필의 내면세계: 만년의 시련과 고독, 그리고 자아완성

Abstract

This article is about a study on the internal world of Song Ik Pil (宋翼弼: 1534∼1599) based on the Chinese poetries written by him in his elderly years when he went through various hardship by party strife. This study looks into the process how he went for self-completion under such hardship and solitude, which is apart from the viewpoint of literature. His poetry world is not simple. In his elderly years, his poetry mood also penetrated deeply into his own internal world under such hard life. It would be good to examine his life and philosophy through his poetry. Many of his poetry pieces were written for Neo-Confucian discipline, which was the mental will and effort of his to escape such hardship in his elderly years. The harder his life got, the cleaner and more noble his mental world went up towards. He thought that the time of solitude and calmness was a chance to him given by heaven and made such time an opportunity to introspect deeply and culture him. His elderly years were the time when he lighted up himself brighter as a Neo-Confucian. He formed his life of his elderly years into many pieces of poetry.