한국 한시에 나타난 數詞의 修辭學

Abstract

Investigating Hansi, a poetry which was written by Chinese character in ancient Korea, we will find out so many numbers in every stanza and line. Especially, such poetic composition emerges in a antithesis. In the ancient Korean customs, capacity of making a antithesis was regarded very important skill, because that skill was necessary to carry on a cultural living and so was the only way to gain a court office. Numbers was used in the Hansi because of its substantial virtues as a concreteness, symbolism, laconism. Many poets like Jisang Jeong who lived in the middle Koryo Dynasty used diverse numbers in his works, as a result he was admired a great literary master in spite of personal career of treason. In this essay, I describe distinguishing marks of number as a instrument of literature and take several examples. First, Number was inflected as a object of joke because of its playable character. Second, most court poets used numbers for make eulogies admiring rulers. Three, numbers used in a poem made diverse rhetorical funtions as a correspondence, for example in the countermeasure of time and place, visual and auditory sense.