藥山 吳光運의 「海東樂府」 연구

Abstract

This paper aims at examining the characteristics of the contents and the form of the 28 pieces of Haedong-Akbu(「海東樂府」), independently given in the fifth volume of Oh Gwang-woon’s(1689∼1745) Yaksan-mango(『藥山漫稿』), and at studying their meaning in the history of Akbu poetry. During the period of the end of 17th century and the early 18th century when he lived, people were confronted with various social contradictions resulted from the social and economic changes of the latter part of Joseon dynasty, and a series of renovations of the ideology were being seriously considered in order to overcome the traditional social system, come up with the solutions for them, and to establish a new society. Haedong-Akbu is the literature produced under this political background, when the scholastic interest in one’s own history and natural features based on the national and independent consciousness increased. With regard to the characteristics in the contents of Haedong-Akbu, its main theme is to present the legitimacy of Korean history in its own way, and to express the people’s pride in the glorious aspects of Korean history. In addition to praising the ancestors’ achievements, most of the works focused on admiring and reflecting on their public morals. Moreover, they show the strong wish that the glory of Korean past history and the great achievements of ancestors would be repeated today and that the past history would become the present one. In terms of the characteristics of their forms, they have very liberal meters and phrasal rules, and different kinds of rhymes. They held the lowest rate of proposal poeof pmong other writers of Yeongsa-Akbu, and displayed the forms of the poems before the modern times as they were. In general, Haedong-Akbu lays stress on describing and admiring from a poet’s viewpoint, so it has the characteristics of expression to reveal the statement of facts･praise and censure･exclamation･interpretation. Besides, as a way to express where a narrator and a soliloquizing person coexist, there are some expressions consisting of the background stories of a kind of dramatic effect, or the words of the characters appearing in an incident. Their significance can be defined as the contribution to playing the role of bridge by inheriting the Haedong-Akbu written by Kim Jong-jik of the early period of Joseon dynasty and the one by Shim Gwang-se‧Lee Ik‧Lim Chang-taek in the middle era, and by delivering it to the writers of the next generation in the latter part of Joseon dynasty, such as Lee Gwang-sa‧Kim Su-min‧Lee Yeong-ik , and the contribution to establishing the national･subjective literature to some degree.