孤竹 崔慶昌 詩의 風格

Abstract

Kojook(孤竹) Choi Kyeong-Chang(崔慶昌), one of the poets of the so-called Three-Tang school(三唐派), was a central figure in the transition from the Song poetic style(宋詩風) to the Tang poetic style(唐詩風), marking a turning point in the history of Korean literature. Okbong incorporated Tang poetry amidst the cultural ambience of the Honam(湖南) area. With the exception of his fastidious rhetoric and abstruse use of authentic precedents(典故), he expressed his honest arising from his own life expriences in a language that was easily comprehensible. The poems of Choi Kyeong-Chang(崔慶昌) are soaked into his human nature. He was a man of integrity and was a person of artistic turn. He also was a man of military spirit. Though he tried not to reveal his inner side of mind, when appreciating his poems, his human nature was well permeated into poems. In his poems, his lonely state of mind and his autumn-like mental attitudes are well immersed in his pure and honest personality. His upright character never let him take a compromising attitude. His main tone was 'chunghan(淸寒)' and it reflected his human nature well. 'chunghan(淸寒)' refers to a poetic expression in which the styles of the poem are serene but show lonely atmosphere and at the same time the expression is not ornamental. Compared to the poems of Paek Kwang-Hun(白光勳) and Lee Dal(李達), his poems are evaluated as 'hankyung(悍勁)', very vigorous and upright. It is related with his pure and clean mental spirit. He well describes the life and landscape of border areas because he had military experiences in border areas. With these experiences in the frontier, he described the life of people confronting border areas and natural features of a northern district. The sentiment of sorrow from pining for home was poetized. Hankyung(悍勁) is the style which reflects upright spirit and sentiment of sadness originated from the landscape of the border areas and lives of exhausted wanderers.