金昌翕 매화시의 특징 : 「松栢堂詠梅」를 중심으로

Abstract

The apricot flower has been the literary persons’ favorite poetical materials for a long time, and particularly in the 18thcentury, writing styles became diverse and there were signs of the traditional symbols being dissolved. This article focuses on the influence that KimChang-heup’apricot flower verses exerted on the writing of the apricot flower poetry at that time to a certain extent and to reveal the characteristics of the composition and poetic imagery of ‘Songbaekdangyeongmae.’The overall structure of ‘Songbaekdangyeongmae’ is the form expanding from 2 verses of 5 lines to 14 verses of 7 lines. The 14 verses of 7 lines are composed of introduction, the middle, and conclusion, and in the middle part, independent verses are connected in parallel and several themes and images appear repeatedly. It can be said that such a composition has the effect of expressing diverse poetic sentiments toward the objects freely while concentrating into a single theme. In terms of poetic imagery, the major characteristics of Kim Chang-heup’s apricot flower poetry are as follows. First, it gazes at the essence of existence and concretely embodies it. In other words, it recognizes taegeuk inherent to the apricot flower and attempts to embody it. In such perception of the apricot flower, the influence of 邵雍 is perceived and it can be seen that, while containing fundamental meanings by converting relative terms into poetic words, the concrete and sensuous description of the apricot flower is being made. Furthermore, it is connected to discourse on writing that demands the description of the essence, rather than the exterior,of the object. Second, ‘Songbaekdangyeongmae’ strengthens the meanings of lucidity and newness of the apricot flower and the poet by repeating the backdrop of dawn, and gives fresh aesthetic sentiments to the verses. From the viewpoint of historical development of the apricot flower verses, the prominent characteristics of Kim Chang-heup’s apricot flower verses are the exploration of fundamental and essential approach to the apricot flower. The attempt to look directly in the essence of the object and express the spirit concretely was made while the principal entity’s experience of the essence of the object was emphasized. Such a writing attitude is intellectual-oriented in that it emphasizes the insight into the objects, and is emotional-oriented in that the main entity’s experience of being united with the objects is emphasized. It is such aspects that exerted influence on the 18thcentury literary persons such as LeeByeong-yeon and LeeBong-hwan in the posterity, and is related to the matter of the 'truth[眞]' that exerted influence on the poetical circles at that time.