使行詩의 특징과 전개 양상

Abstract

This study examined the historical development patterns of envoy poetry in Korea and the characteristic contents of envoy poetry. With regard to the characteristic contents of envoy poetry, there might be many feelings arising from the travel of foreign countries, but this study focused on the expressions of foreign culture, recollections at historic sites, and association with Chinese literati. With regard to the development pattern of envoy poetry, envoy poems were included sporadically in anthologies until the late Koryo Dynasty, but from the early Chosun Dynasty collections of envoy poems began to appear and in the late Chosun Dynasty when envoys were dispatched frequently to the Qing, many different collections of poetry on travel to Yenching were published. Many studies have already been made on envoy poetry. Based on the previous research, now we need to gather literary works written by people who participated in the same envoy group and to examine their travel closely. On the other hand, it is necessary to trace the flow of consciousness by age through diachronic study of individual envoys’ recollections at historic sites that they stopped at on their way.