『퇴계시역주』에 나타난 번역의 구조와 의미- 매화시를 중심으로 -

Abstract

In present day, understanding of the finest scholar T'oegye’s Maehwashi(The poem about the apricot blossom) depends on how to translate. T'oegyeshiyŏkchu(『退溪詩譯注』) is the translated version of all the poems in the 5th edition of Naejip(內集), one of the four categories(Naejip, Uejip, Byeoljip, Sokjjip) of all T'oegye’s literature work, which was translated and interpreted by Prof. Yŏnmin(淵民). When we took a look at Maehwashi in T'oegyeshiyŏkchu, we could see the whole poem at a glance, and it was very exiting to read even though we had not read the poem out loud. Therefore, we decided to examine Prof. Yŏnmin’s work based on how he translated and understood T'oegye’s Maehwashi. Yŏnmin’s translation work of Maehwashi fascinated reader’s mind. First of all, Prof. Yŏnmin made much account of musicality by translating T'oegye’s Maehwashi. When he read a poem with Eumsuyul which was very familiar Korean traditional rhythm, he made much account of Eumboyul which was formed by regular sequence of one breath unit. Moreover, Prof. Yŏnmin created 2 foot-pause-2 foot structure for covering all different kinds of poems such as Oeonjeolgu, Chileonjeolgu, Oeonyulshi, Chileonyulshi, Oeonbaeyul, Chileonbaeyul, Jangdangu, etc. At last, Prof. Yŏnmin did not use any modified words or embellish any poetic dictions. He tried to translate with seeing through the author’s purpose and the meaning of a piece of work which can be corresponded with Toikye’s seeking life and spirit. Ultimately, Prof. Yŏnmin has given the rhythm in translated poem by syllable, foot, line, and pause. In addition to that, he easily approached to the readers by making much account of empathic point of view over metaphrasing and paraphrasing.