冲庵 金淨의 金剛山 紀行詩 硏究

Abstract

This thesis represents a topically categorized review of the poems that Kim Jeong with the pen name of Chungam created on his visits to Geumgangsan Mountain and which were previously less noticed by scholars. Kim Jeong was a man of letters who not only showed excellent qualities as a Dohak(Learning of the right path as a person) but also demonstrated superb skills for Tang Dynasty poetry. In this study, I explore a cross section of Kim Jeong’s perception of life by classifying his thirty or so Geumgangsan travel poems into traveler’s nostalgia, settlement into a world of cleanness and lucidity, and seeking the right world to come. In traveler’s nostalgia, as a person who began to work for the government early in his life and underwent banishment and return, he traveled to Geumgangsan, and his yearnings for hometown and mother that he felt on the occasion were adopted as the subject matter for his poems. As far as settlement into a world of cleanness and lucidity, I survey those poems that Kim Jeong who wanted to leave the mundane world and lead a life with a clean and clear heart created by tapping into the scenic views in Geumgangsan in a bid to express poetically his commitment to a life of a hermit through his meetings with several Buddhist monks. In social engagement, the poet did not stop at having zen meditation while contemplating the magnificent views of Geumgangsan; in retrospect, he described his determination toward realizing the ideal of Taoist politics. Kim Jeong’s Geumgangsan travel poetry excellently described his inner consciousness including his political musings on the unjustified actualities he had before he returned to the political arena following his first banishment, the objectives in his life as a hermit, and his future plans revealed through his commitment to social engagement. ’Kim Jeong’s poetry was highly acclaimed by later reviewers. As his works previously failed to receive a close examination to regrets, I want to try one on his Geumgangsan travel poems.