허난설헌의 애정시 연구

Abstract

Heo, Nanseolhun(許蘭雪軒 1563~1589) was a female poet of the middle Joseon Period. She sang tragic love by subliming her love of her family into poetic images in her poems. She sang sorrowful songs of pain in life through suffering of her little children’s deaths. As she endured such a painful time, she sublimed the purpose of her life and sad stories of her family leaving her into her love and yearning poetry. She describes images of an ideal Taoist hermit world to leave closed spaces for open spaces in her poetry. Heo, Nanseolhun expanded her own space to be greater world by comparing herself to the Taoist hermit world. During this process, she created love and yearning poetry which beautified the painful real world where her children and brothers died and where she was isolated by her husband. She pioneered challenging life herself rather than following her destiny to expand her open space into the world of poetry. She used her sorrow and longing as material for her poetry to elaborate the image of love to the status of Taoist hermit, which is her distinctive writing technique.