백광홍의 현실인식과 문학세계

Abstract

Gi-Bong Baek Gwang Hong highly known as one of 8 greatest literary men middle in Josean era has been highly recognized as the author of <GwanseoByeolGok> so far. He was a poet who left more than 300 poems. However, his position and achievement in literature have not been highly assessed. That is why I have conducted this study. This thesis is aimed to review his reality recognition and literature. In his work-pieces, his attitude toward action onto reality can be summarized in two aspects. He had lived his life as a Confucian scholar. Even if it was not long, he had devoted himself all to his life as a Confucian scholar. From this point, his strong will onto reality is thought to be from his sense of separation between his reality recognition and nonsense of reality that could not accept his will. In addition, he longed for 'World of gods (仙界)' in his Taoism-style poem, which, however, can be said to be not a simple longing for an ideal world but a sense of disappointment of a politician who could not make his recognition come true in reality and a way to comfort himself. Continuously longing for the ideal world, he did not leave the reality. Even if he lived only a short life, he tried to positively meet the reality and love the people during all his life, which could be said to be from his will that could not be realized through all his life. However, the world he longed for did not only exist in his thought. It was a countermeasure made through his warm humanism.