李世輔의 현실인식과 문학적 대응 - <농부가> 다시 읽기 -

Abstract

It is confirmed his aspect as a politician through his work <Nongbuga>. It is stanzaic sijo composed with 12-stanza singing the farmer’s daily life throughout the four seasons. However, the speaker of this sijo is not a farmer but a politician emphasizing the key requirements in farming for example, diligency, the proper time, weather and so on. In other words, he expressed sympathy with farmer’s life, but never assimilated with it. The latter half is mostly about the farmer’s pain caused by heavy tax and interest and the way to get out of those. On this matter, Lee Se-bo did not care about the current national governing system, either. He only presented moral requirement such as saving, moral training and contentment as the solution of real problem that farmer’s suffering from. In short, <Nongbuga> is a literary response of the problem he witnessed and a political text reflected the author’s desire to maintain the current governing system more thoroughly with setting up the moral and economic regulations through personal enlightenmet. This thesis is to review how Lee She-Bo, who lived in 19C, responded the reality of his era as a politician, and also translate his work <Nongbuga> based on his point of view. Lee Se-Bo had a relatively smooth life served King Cheoljong, Kojong and regent Heungseon, even though he was exiled for three years as a member of royal family. As he belonged to the upper class, he has firm beliefs of its order and ideology. It is why he tried to face the problematic situation in reality through the enlightenment. He personally found the clue to solution of the problem through the enlightenment because there is nothing wrong with the national governing system. He thought even the petty officials of a provincial town also belonged to those who he administered, so he applied his idea not only to the lower class people but also to them.