17세기 여성화자 시조의 문학적 특성 연구 -閨怨詩와의 비교를 중심으로-

Abstract

This paper examined the characteristics of male Confucianists' sijos that represented abandoned women in the 17th century. Firstly, I investigated the works that had explicit allegorical meanings to argue that they followed the tradition of allegorical poetry of loyalty. Secondly, I scrutinized the literary characteristics of the works of which allegorical features were ambiguous. I compared them with Chinese male writers' love poetry and figured out that they held three features in common: docile emotion, conventional images and motifs, and sexual representation. In Chinese love poetry, the features were formed reflecting male writers' tastes and intention. They created an ideal image of abandoned women with their confucian concepts and represented it through their rhetorics. They also had an intention to express their loyalty to the king through the love poetry. The sijos of abandoned women in the 17th century, which have similar literary features as Chinese love poetry, are also considered as implying male writers' tastes and intention. Especially considering the fact that the writers of the sijos of abandoned women in the 17th century often composed chinese love poems to express their loyalty to the king, I reached to the conclusion that the sijos of abandoned women in the 17th century expressed loyalty to the king, following the rhetorics of Chinese love poetry.