蘆溪 <相思曲>의 내용적 특성과 그 의미

Abstract

<Sangsagok> is a Gasa work of Nogye that is known to public thanks to the discovery of "Yeongyangyeokjeung" in 2004. <Sangsagok> is not far different from other works of Nogye in a sense that it incorporates similar or same phrases used in other works and adopts expressions used in precedent literatures. However, the substance cordially contains 'adoring heart to other party' which is under debates that some former researchers interpreted it as admiration to the King whereas others interpreted it as pitiful love of man and woman who are not able to meet. A teller in a poem is a projection of the writer. The substantial characteristics of <Sangsagok> based on the teller's character and recognition is that this poem exposes male teller to the surface, and the 'adored other party' is recognized as an Absolute. The teller misses but resigns to meet again so the poem exposes the teller's sorrow and pain but no concern or anxiety for his adored one without blaming. Nogye did his best as a soldier facing war, but he chose to return to home town when the war ended because of the changed social aspect that soldiers were no more respected and now despised. But when he returned to home town, he found there was no servant remained so he had to farm by himself. Furthermore, inhumanity among people was spread and his family became poor because he could not take care of them during the war when he was a soldier. Nogye tried to overcome the situation with Confucianism but he was always suffered with internal conflicts due to sorrow of frustration and lingering desire to promote himself being high class officers. Such conflicts are found in the <Sangsagok> that the teller, as a man, misses the 'adored party' and describes himself so sad and sorrowful but eventually the teller resigns and returns to ordinary life. The reason why <Sangsagok> is excluded from the collection "Nogyeseonsaengmunjib" may be because it describes the writer's internal conflicts relatively honestly so is not thought to be appropriate for a collection like "Yurimjeon". Nevertheless, <Sangasagok> is not seem to be a poem which decribes a loving heart for a woman, judging from the fact that it recognizes the value of the adoring party so much, it misses the adoring party without blaming, and the writer wrote this poem for a government officer 'Sangju Busa' though he was younger than the writer.