다산 정약용의 원림관을 통해서 본 <茶山花史>

Abstract

Joseon’s literary men loved nature so much that they took appreciation of nature as a way of training, and it was realized bygroves and pavilions constructed in various places of the country. In addition, we have numerous literary works reciting such spaces that constitute materials allowing us to evidently see their views of nature and groves. Dasan Jeong Yak-yong, a genius Silhak scholar in the late Joseon, also loved nature as his contemporary literary men did. We can see his attitude in this regard from his positive arrangement of groves during his banishment as well as in his days as an official. However, most of the existing studies on Dasan’s poems have been focused on understanding his recognition of reality, and hence we have relatively less work on his poems of groves and nature. Thus, this paper tries to examine the recognition of nature shown by Dasan’s poems, in particular his poems of groves among other poems of his that represent his view of nature and his view of groves based on such recognition of nature, and explore the 20 pieces of poetry in Dasan Hwasa ‘Dasan’s history of flowers’ among other works of his as grove literature that take Dasan Chodang ‘Dasan’s thatched cottage’ as a theme. I have taken a look at the poetic consciousness of Dasan Hwasa while suggesting that Dasan’s view of groves take real life as its base and is practice-oriented with efforts for the base, and based on this, I take Dasan Hwasa to be characteristic in that its poetic subjects are life-based and its poetic conception is unfolded around facts. Though this paper has many unsatisfactory aspects as it has not vividly look at Dasan’s philosophy and literature and has analyzed minor parts, as a study of Dasan’s works about groves and nature, this study provides a framework of thought in which we can see his poetic world from a balanced perspective, and furthermore it is expected to play a catalytic role in bring about various studies on grove literature.