李用休 漢詩와 李彦瑱 漢詩의 대비론

Abstract

I compare Yong Hyu Yi’s Sino-Korean Poetry with Eon Jin Yi’s in the view of showing the characteristics of 18th century Sino-Korean Poetry. Traditional studies have been focused on the similarities of these two, but I pay attention to the differences between them. Yong Hyu Yi and Eon Jin Yi, former’s student, shared the same opinions on philosophical understanding of humanities, similar literary and poetic perspectives and mutual trust. Especially on the matter of poetry, they both are considered as those that extremely sought for individuality and originality and that explored a new poetic forms, themes and words. Yong Hyu Yi’s Poetic Form of Gojeolyeonjak(Form of Poetry with Successive Stanzas of Four Lines Each) and Eon Jin Yi’ Jangpeonjapyeong(Long Complex and Trivial Poems) are typical examples for these. Yong Hyu Yi and Eon Jin Yi, however, different from each other on the matter of their practical statuses, age distributions of their works, and writer’s sensitivity and ability which are derived from the statuses and distributions. First of all, Yong Hyu Yi, a poet over forties, first sought for reflection and answer from his self and applied them to the world. His themes are rationally regulated because he adopted the methodology that illuminates human purity without revealing deficiency and deterioration of the world. He finally developed Poetic Form of Gojeolyeonjaka, a rationalistic form of poetry through rationalistic solutions at the level of poetic words, themes and forms. On the contrary, Eon Jin Yi, a weak and sensitive translater at twenties, showed sharp criticism and passion. He followed the ways to magnify the purity of the self and to criticize deficiency and deterioration of the world, unlike his teacher, Yong Hyu Yi. This dark and negative description shows his self-consciousness that the world is unsatisfying and inconvenient. This tendency is related to his audacious critical spirit and made Donghogeosil, his Long Complex and one hundred and fifty seven Trivial Poems, interpreted as poetic forms of his criticism.