菊圃 姜樸의 尙古的 시세계

Abstract

This article examined the ancient-worshiping poetry of Gukpo(菊圃) Gang Bak(姜樸) who was the key poet of literary circles of Capital Neighboring Namin (近畿南人) in the early 18th Century. For this, archaistic poems from his ancient poems were analyzed. Gang Bak, instead of just staying at the poems of imitation and learning level, created new poems by transforming the originals. In archaistic poems, he borrowed emotions, rhetorics and motives from ancient poems and reinterpreted them in that times' context to make his own poems. This indicates that he had maintained ancient-worshiping attitude consistently in his works, not remaining at the stage of plagiarism or immature creation. Unlike archaistic trend, he also made poems for the folk customs and edification at that times. It was the outcome of old tradition which had valued the utility of poetry. Having ancient-worshiping literary inclination, he expressed noble scholar's sense that he should observe the lives of contemporary people and discipline them.