가사 작품 <知止歌>에 대한 문예적 검토

Abstract

This study is to discuss Kim Haejeong-owned lyric, <Jijiga>. This work is written anonymously and a different version of <Jijiga> created in 1932 (Imsin year). The quantity is total 159 lines as each line with 2 metre and the metrical device is mainly 4·4 and 3·4 syllable rhythm. The content of this work is that if people respect God, accept the Three Bonds and Five Relationships and filial piety, and have right mind and spirit, they will fall on the piping times of peace like the Yosun era. It shows a typical Donghak lyric type. <Jijiga> seems to be simple but embeds various thoughts and complex structures. It accepts Kyeongcheonmyeong Suncheonli (respecting and following the logic of the sky) as a way of Kyeongcheon, propounds Sicheonju (serving God) and Susimjeonggi(improving minds and setting spirit right). Above all, <Jijiga> succeeds Confucian thoughts and for the sake of moral reformation, insists establishment of brotherly affection, devoted son and daughter-in-raw, a faithful subject, and harmony of man and wife and also tells that the world can be relieved after forming personality as man of virtue. Furthermore, it says that if people practice asceticism with one mind, poverty and lowliness will be gone and honors and wealth will come. <Jijiga> finds out not an absolute integration of some universality or outness but the fact of the hub of the universe, as sublime and spiritual existence which respects own individuality and difference and serves God inside. As a lyric type work, in Literary <Jijiga>, excellence or distinctiveness are not found but it clearly shows religious purpose to correct the chaotic society order. Above all, Donghak is an autochthonic religion of our people and shows new human type and thoughts through the integration of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. <Jijiga> is a significant work representing those contents.