《시인옥설》에 나타난 송대 시안론

Abstract

As a collection of illustrated poems compiled by Weiqingzhi in the latter part of the Southern Song Dynasty, the 《Shirenyuxie》 is evaluated as one of the three major collections of illustrated poems in the Song Dynasty. It contains the theories and opinions about issues like prosody and poetic formality of literary men in the Song Dynasty. Especially, the theory related to the eye of poem is discussed in detail, which has the important value of literature. The eye of poem means the most important character for the delivery of theme and the creation of artistry in a poem, which was developed from the theory of Zen sect and the theory of painting in the Wei-Chin Southern and Northern Dynasty, and then entered the area of poetics in the Song Dynasty. The precondition of the eye of poem is the creativity of linguistic command. For this, first, after throwing away outdated expressions, the new and unfamiliar poetic diction should be found. The poets in the Song Dynasty borrowed the language, slangs, dialects and ancient words of scriptures to use them as poetic diction. The issue of spiritual and material world is an important content for the eye of poem. When creating an eye of poem, the poets in the Song Dynasty regarded the material world and verbs as more important than the spiritual world and nouns respectively. Also, there was a perception in which “The third character should be the eye of poem in poems with five characters, and the fifth character should be the eye of poem in poems with seven characters”. Even though the utilization of huozi, xiangzi, and aozi was emphasized, on principle, it could be flexibly operated depending on situations.