구봉 송익필의 시세계와 ‘獨’의 경계

Abstract

‘Exclusive’ in the poetry of Gubong Song Ik-pil (1534-1599) consists of the discriminating and characterizing phases, considering its frequency of appearance and its poetic boundaries. Gubong’s exclusive/solitary consciousness occurs from imbalance to long for the ancient times in the present living, in addition to his mean status and creative environments on the virtue or in the hermitage. It is especially noticeable that he escalated ‘exclusive’ to the issue of values. He strived for realizing the old while establishing the ego at the center of a distance between the present and old. The visible outcome is the study on the decorum based on the old virtue. The old was also an issue for the heaven as it is the universal truth. The old and heaven are important themes in his life, study and literature. In such a case, an issue on the identity becomes interests as the existence in response to the old and heaven. He continued to reveal his confidence in the trust and identity for the heavenly mandate. Although this can be universally discovered from others, his difference lies in that he showed the historical vision or the capability of human identity in a superior way. His ‘exclusive’ does not stay to his own compassion or lamentation in many cases because of his independent and awakened ego. To the contrary, ‘exclusive’ is another expression on his own respect and nobility. Another important phase of ‘exclusive’ has something to do with ‘Joy’. He went for the introversive maximization in terms of the exclusive joy or satisfaction and joy on his own way in the nature. We need to notice that he is seeking for the shared joy on his own ways in the exclusive joy; first, the universally shared joy; second, the mentally shared joy with people through the joyful heaven. It was the best answer that he could choose instead of the shared joy in reality which had been blocked off, based on his belief in the heavenly mandate and identity.