鄭樞 시에 나타난 자유지향의 정신과 觀照의 美

Abstract

Jeong Chu(1333-1382) was a poet of the 14th century. He passed the civil service examination with Lee Saek(1328-1396) and entered government service in 1353. Despite a 5-year age difference, they were very friendly with each other in their lifetime. But there were many differences between these two men: tendency, character, a view of the world, and a spiritual value, etc. They had some differences in the course of life. So there are gaps between their poems as much as their life styles. As for Jeong Chu, a poem was a space where he healed his wounds of the spirit from the world, and the only way which could make him communicate with the world. A Poet expresses a sense of alienation from the outside world and inner conflicts in their poems after going through psychological or periodical changes extremely. We can say that Jeong Chu's poems are his life itself, and his life is a piece of poetry. Persons of the Jeong family had unbendingly honest nature and spoke strait out as one man. Sometimes they did not change the words even in the face of death. They also were free spirited, so they were not bound by the social system. They were not avid for a small profit and not interested in economic activity. Because of these characters, they could not take up a big public office and they were often exiled or demoted. Even as for Jeong Po and Jeong Chong, they died in a foreign land, China, tragically. Jeong Po, Jeong Chu, and Jeong Chong are, however, great poets in the history of Korean literature, and their collections of literary works go down to this day. To understand his poems, we must keep some keys in mind: the character of an intellectual with a critical eyes, freewheeling mind and spirit, and a plentiful source of inspiration for a poet, etc. His poems contain a mind free of restrictions, and beauty of contemplation proceeded from it is a primary aesthetic feature of his poems.