한시 속 이름 찾기 - 인명시(人名詩)와 약명시(藥名詩)를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper was written to examine the present state of creation and detailed writing techniques in Korean literary world and guess the driver of creation, which could be unceasingly enjoyed for a long period of time despite the high-level writing techniques and the negative recognition as light literature of those days, focusing on Inmyeongsi (personal name poetry) and Yakmyeongsi (medicine name poetry). Inmyeongsi and Yakmyeongsi contained personal names and medicine names respectively in each phrase. These two types of poetry made full use of ambiguity of Chinese characters and unlike other Japmyeongsi (miscellaneous name poetry), these both included two- or three-character names. Inmyeongsi adopted an insertion type and a riddle type, whereas Yakmyeongsi only adopted an insertion type. The insertion type is to expose names or alias names on the literary surface by inserting them into verses and the riddle type is to hide names or alias names in the literary surface so they can be exposed through interpretation of verses. These two types of poetry were flexibly applied according to the situations, with partial transformation of writing techniques, caused by insertion of vocabulary consisting of two characters or above. The reason why these two types of poetry had been created constantly from the Koryo Dynastry to modern times in spite of the non-mainstream styles, which were hard to write is this versification was a kind of amusing play. Japchesi (miscellaneous handwriting-style poetry), including Inmyeongsi and Yakmyeongsi had double writing techniques, in addition to the basic requirements for Chinese poetry creation and the rule making and compliance was the key element of play. Actually, Chinese poetry always existed in the recreation culture of Joseon writers and it is easily found that a special type of Japchesi was used to hold a dominant position in the verse-making competition and show off their poetic genius. In this sense, Inmyeongsi and Yakmyeongsi need to be regarded as products of the recreation culture of the pre-modern intellectuals’ society rather than being discussed over their literary value as pieces of work. Accordingly, there is a desperate need for an attempt to consider creation of Chinese poetry as part of cultural act.