옥소 권섭의 「16영」 창작과정 고찰

Abstract

The trait of Korean literature is that Korean languageliterature and Chinese language literature have coexisted andexpanded dualistically. They developed by negotiating andinteracting with each other, so it helped diversify Koreanliterature. Among them Shijo(A three-verse Korean ode) andChinese poetry found ways to make various changes byconsiderably influencing, and being influenced by, each other. Okso, Kwon Seop(1671~1759) translated his Chinese poetry into Shijoin the middle of this change. The making process of The 16 Yeong(The Sixteen Songs) of Okso canbe defined as self-translation. When you look into the forming process ofThe 16 Young of Okso, he first created The 8 Yeong(The Eight Songs),the eight poems in the form of a quatrain (in Chinese poetry) with fivecharacters to a line before and after he was 30 years old and later hecompleted the Chinese Poems of The 16 Young, composing and adding 8poems in the form of a quatrain with seven words to a line to the former. And based on this he seemed to compose his Shijo, The 16 Young, at the age of between 33 and 42. The type of Okso’s self-translation is to change his Chinese poems into aself –translated Shijo based on the content of his Chinese poems. If youcompare the Chinese poems with the Shijo made up of The 16 Yeong, youcan see Okso focused the subject and poetic sentiment on the samematerial itself in composing his Chinese poems. And when translating theChinese poems into the Shijo, it is confirmed that he realized thepersonalization of his wrath toward the world through the poetic object. The self-translating author can revise and complement his own work athis will and has a right to use unconventional language to some extent. Okso reinterprets his own work, making the best of this author’s privilege. This aspect is the consciousness of self-translation shown in the creationprocess of The 16 Yeong and the significance of the history of literatureimproving the literary value and status.