申光漢의 詩에 나타난 상상력과 사유 방식-16세기 前半 館閣文人 漢詩의 轉變과 관련하여-

Abstract

Recognizing the repetitive appearances of several images in Gijae's poetry, this study set out to explain his imagination and ways of thinking by analyzing those principal images. Believing that he was living in the era of slaughter, he depicted the images of flowers, which represent beauty, life force, and purity in the real life, in his poems high frequency. His focus, however, gradually shifted to transcendent mentality, and he expressed his pursuit of the essence of the mind with the images of water, which represents the mind's purification, those of ash, which represents the calm mind, and those of fire, which represents the spirit of love and bright wisdom. The images of light were the purer versions of those of fire. An examination of the images in his poems reveals his dynamic imagination and his ways of thinking, which involve orientation to truth and return to the origin. His imagination and ways of thinking show his attitude toward life as he made active reactions to the troubling times. The images he adopted to represent the vitality of life and the essence of the mind such as flowers, fire, and light imply that his ways of thinking ultimately moved toward the domain of vitalist Sung Confucianism. Those findings indicate that Gijae Shin Gwang-han was a pioneering writer of the bureaucratic literary men, showing a wide door to the poetic world of Sung Confucianism. He is also differentiated from other Sarims in the 16th century who created rather dry and flat poems focused on the academic aspect in that he expressed his ideology with beautiful images and wonder.