聖峯 李泳 詩文學 硏究

Abstract

This paper, focussing on Seongbong Lee Yeong, is to examine his poetic literature. Seongbong Lee Yeong did not went through a peaceful life. His family’s fortune was going downhill since his grandfather, Cheongseon Lee Jijeong, and it is thought to enormously influence his life. Seongbong’s unstable life can be thought to have been derived from his father’s short life without any government position, but it was more likely due to his character. While resembling his grandfather, he had exquisite artistic skills such as caligraphy and poetic writings, on which his family’s literary ability was focussed, he that much neglected the state examination. Indeed, he barely took a low-level government position through eumseo(蔭敍). Seongbong Lee Yeong recorded his 43 poems under 39 titles in Seongbongshigo which was added to his grandfather Cheongseon’s anthology Cheongseonshigo. His poems are thought to have been written about the area around his work-place while he worked as Gyeongyangchalbang. Thus, most of the poems in his anthology can be thought to have been written for the 3 year period from the 12th to the 15th year of Hyeonjong’s reign, in which he was 39 to 42. As Seongbong’s anthology recorded only 43 poems and other kinds of writings cannot be found, it can be thought that Seongbong’s literary specialty lies in poetry. Since it is not only Seongbong’s literary character but also those of most of his family members, it seems to be the literary character of his family. The Seongbong’s currently remaining poetic pieces mostly contains lonesomeness and missing, both of which can be explained as nostalgia and homesickness. Such feelings found in Seongbong’s poems show that he did not have much ambition toward government positions. However, from some of Seongbong’s poems can the feelings of bright, light, and cheerful joy be found. His poems describing fresh and bright feelings, undescribable raptured atmosphere, and quiet free life obviously differ from those of lonesomeness and missing derived from nostalgia and homesickness. The two opposite tendencies found in Seongbong’s poems show that while Seongbong did not enjoy his life as a government official, the joy from new atmosphere and rapture in his public office life away from home was not quite little; and his poems were containing his feelings as they are. It easily shows that he was familiar with poetic writing. It also shows that Seongbong’s literature resembled the literary tendency of his family. Regarding this, more discussions are thought to be necessary.