향가 <제망매가>의 실체와 현대변용의 면모

Abstract

<Jae-Mang-Mae-Ga> is a 7 phrased Hyang ga made by a buddhist monk Wal meong sah, in praying for his deceased sister's peaceful rest, at Shilla in the time of the 35th king, king Gyung duk. <Jae-Mang-Mae-Ga> is a ritual song that prays for the peace and the rebirth of the dead and shows the best lyrics in the existing Hyang ga. Based on such informations, it is recreated and continued in the modern days. <Jae-Mang-Mae>, a recreation into a modern novel, completely excluded the religious beliefs and tried to actively solve the reality and situation we are facing by drawing the aspect of our society in the great shift in the 70s to 80s. The modern poets who have recreated <Jae-Mang-Mae-Ga> have escaped from the religious meaning, that sees that the writer is trying to overcome the sadness the death of the sister brings through religious belief, and the overall interpretation, that explains the love for the blood relative, and explains the warm introspect and interest in human and reality of the writer. Also the originators that have changed <Jae-Mang-Mae-Ga> to the modern taste, have regulated the Hyang ga of the Shilla ages to the periodical reality of their time and desire for a active world. Also they only place their base on the reality they are facing and show no interest in the situation of the outside world. They tried to show a way in a historical reality that is passed down from the past. They observed life phase in detail based on the reality they are facing and tried to assign great meaning to the truths they have neglected by relating it with various situations. Also they showed fresh ideas by not seeing the classics as just classics, but also as a source of cultural creation and try to reinterpret it to meet the modern taste. with Recently few researchers does not see the classic literature as a petrified product and finds out that it holds gravity and meaning and spare nothing to find out the primitive meaning or reinterpret the literature. Beneath all those works, the classic literature can be seen as a source that shows new horizon to the creativity of Korean literature and acts as a stimulant. As it can be seen in the case of the Hyang ga of Shilla the <Jae-Mang-Mae-Ga>, the modern transformation of the Classics are friendly to the eyes of the mass and provokes their interest but one must be careful not to focus so much on the modern change so that the originality the work holds, does not perish.