南玉의 次三淵雜詠에 나타난 특성과 의미

Abstract

Nam, Ok(南玉, 1722～1770)was a writer who had born as a child by a concubine in the middle of 18th century. In 1763, as a Je-sul-kwan(製術官: a government official writer) for Kye-mi-sa-haeng(癸未使行), he had written a collection of travel poems called by Il-Kwan-Si-Cho(日觀詩草). Among them, as a text for this inquiry, I selected five works of Jab-yeong(雜詠)which used the rhythming words in the poems of Sam-yeon, Kim, Chang-Hub(三淵 金昌翕). Since his returning way at Cheok-kan-kwan(赤間關), these works had been written until his coming back the country. All those are ones that was using Sam-yeon's rhythming words. It shows that he had liking for Sam-yeon's poems. And having written them in the end of journey, he tried to complete his experience and to express his own feelings and sentiments in the journey. I concentrated upon three subjects in this paper. The first theme is the various modes of a traveler’s melancholy. Jab-yeongs were written 'at the halfway between departing and returning', and 'under the circumstances of unstability caused by a repetition of moving and staying'. Therefore, his poems show the feeling of unstability in time and space and the sentiment of a traveler's melancholy. It is a interesting fact that the closer came to his country, the less works were written. Secondly, I focused on the natural scenery of the season and his way of description of it. His concern lied not in the imaginary world, but in the real world, the natural scenery and real people and events that he experienced in his journey. For describing it with lively and appropriate expressions, his works had a feature of the sincerity and actuality in the description of feeling. Thirdly, I focused on his reaction to the situation of that times and self-image. He had negative attitude to the accrediting of Tong-sin-sa(通信使). And with negative attitude to the situation of that times, he described his own image as a distorted one. Confronted difficulties and frustrations from the hard realities of life, he sometimes desired to transcend it, sometimes hoped to come back his hometown. In composing poems, he took everything that he observed at his surroundings as subject matters of his poems. Neither did he deliberately choose subject matters of his poems, nor did he elaborately map out a scheme. However, that he wrote high level of poems shows his excellent ability for poetic composition. Although he used Sam-yeon's rhythming words, his works came to be his own Jab-yeong because he had written them with his own experiences and in his unique way. His works are evaluated as his unique works reconstructed by his poetic features rather than as the work using the others' rhythming words. And his melancholy and unstability in his poems are regarded as connected with his feeling of alienation caused by his social status. So his Jab-yeong could be appreciated to the expression of a poet's unstable and alienated life which were written in the form of travel poems.