李用休 한시의 파격적 구성과 실험성

Abstract

Hyehwan LEE Yong-Hyu(1708〜1782) revealed his works that were extraordinary in terms of both form and substance. His outstanding experimental trials were consistently appreciated by his contemporary writers. Many commentators who studied Hyehwan have also mentioned them. However there have not been sufficient studies about his works through substantial approach. In this study, I have tried to explain his unique experimental spirit on the form through two aspects such as “the unprecedented structure in sequential poems” and “the experimental spirit in arranging poetic words”. A sequential poetry is not a rare form so that many young and old writers have used this form, but the way that Hyehwan wrote his sequential poems were different from others. His sequential poems were organized in the form of picaresque. His sequential poems were not progressed in the same way as a epic poem. Each piece of his poems was organized independently. The message of each piece in his poems was simple and clearly delivered. In addition, he maximized the effect of each poem by adding his extraordinary idea. Those independent pieces of poems were gathered to build a sequential poem delivering the meaning. The unprecedented nature of poetic words and arrangement of them in Hyehwan poems were not be able to be compared with other writers’. The unprecedented natures in form, which were revealed in his poems, can be analysed in two aspects. First, the structure and organization of poetic words. Second, the arrangement of letters. In terms of the structure and organization of poetic words, he used the way where a variety of couplets were played. In terms of the arrangement of letters, he adopted a unique way where the poetic words were arranged in accordance with the visual placement rather than pitch and rhyming characters. Hyewhan’s those trials often violated rules in the Chinese poetry. He deliberately broke the existing strict rules writing the Chinese poems to develop his own new beauty of poems. As you are well aware of, many writers tried a variety of literary experiments in the 19th century. It is no exaggeration to say that he was one of the leaders in such experimental challenges.