南塘 韓元震의 說理詩 硏究

Abstract

This study explores the Chinese poems by Namdang, Han Wonjin(1682-1751), who had worked as a writer during the late Joseon Dynasty period as a neo-Confucianist and focuses on Seol-li-si(說理詩), in that neo-Confucian thinking underlay most of the Namdang's poems. The neo-Confucian thinking in Namdang's Seol-li-si was divided into three parts, i.e., making investigations of neo-Confucian thinking, excluding heresy and getting a sense of Dotong(道統), and reciting the theory of Gwan-mool-gi-heung, and on the basis of the parts, this study examined how the neo-Confucian thinking was poetically embodied. Consequently, much of the Namdang's poems were on investigating the neo-Confucian thinking such as Yi-ki(理氣), Seong-li(性理), Seong-jeong(性情), Tae-geuk(太極), I-il-boon-soo(理一分殊), etc., because his chief business was on neo-Confucianism, not on literature. In addition, Namdang emphasized moderation and righteousness as a way of developing Sim-Seong. Namdang excluded Yang-Zhu(楊朱), Mo-Tzu(墨翟), Buddhism(佛敎), Lu Sang-San(陸象山), Lao-tzu(老子), etc., spotting them as heresy, and harshly criticized the teachings of Wang Yangming(陽明學) for causing the fall of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, Namdang insisted that the sense of Dotong(道統) from Confucianism Mencius(孟子) and Chu-tzu(朱子) had established led to Lee ie, Song Siyeol, Gwon Sangha in the Joseon Dynasty, and expressed in Seol-li-si his intention to establish the sense of Dotong(道統). Namdang's Seol-li-si includes Yi-chi-si(理趣詩), which embodied the then esthetic feelings and excitement in a form of poems, perceiving the inherent self-cultivating body without seeing nature or things only as it was. In these poems, self-pleasure(自樂) from one united body with nature, leisure and tranquility, joy of self-satisfaction, freedom in pleasure(한중락), etc. were embodied with calmness and no greed.