磻溪 李養吾의 漢詩世界

Abstract

Li, yang-o was the poor scholar who lived all his life in Ulsan where he was born. The aspects of his poems written in Chinese Character were various. First, there were the poems in which he expressed the pleasure of rural life and manifested an attitude toward it. Because he lived in the country all his life he often expressed not only the pleasure of rural life but also the pain from country life. Moreover, he expressed the desire to escape from hardships of the actual and flee to a dreamy world. Secondly, there were the poems in which he manifested his recognition and criticism of the social reality. Most of them were made after his late forties. Especially, Gam-hoi-Sib-chil-su(Seventeen deep emotions) was the masterpiece in which he manifested frankly his thought about the absurdity of the society. He manifested seventeen problems of the society and wished to solve them in this poem. Third, there were the poems in which he expressed his affection for his native place and pride of it. Most of them were written about such materials as pavilions, auditoriums, temples, houses for sacrificial rites, rocks around Ulsan, his native place. Lastly, there were the works in which he made various experiments on types of poems written in Chinese Character. he spared no pains to appreciate and succeed ancient works. We can find it in his works that Ban-gye was not only an advocate of novel as known in the history of korean literature but also a great poet, critic, learned man.