忘軒 李冑의 한시와 문학사적 위상

Abstract

The lyrical world depicted in the poetic literature of Mangheon Lee Ju interconnects with his harsh political experiences and poetic talent, thus creating unique aesthetic consciousness. From this perspective, this study set out to examine the direction of the meanings being structurized in his Chinese poems and its status in the history of literature. Lee emphasized his realistic perceptions rather than his historical and ideological ones in his works. That is, he closely examined things and projected the experiential facts based on emotionalism into them, thus establishing his own poetic world. In his poems based on his realistic perceptions of things, his poetic world is structurized with four pillars, which include "frustration of ideal," "solitude and sorrow," "pent-up anger and passion," and "purity and nature." He attempted to realize the Confucian ideals of loyalty and filial duty by going into government service, but his attempt was frustrated in a massacre of scholars. He then expressed the sentiments of solitude and sorrow passively and those of pent-up anger and passion actively in his Chinese poems. He also overcame those sentiments by securing the new meanings of purity and nature. In his poetic literature, in particular, such senses of beauty as clear, sad, and commendable are usually found. They are combined with "purity and nature," "solitude and sorrow," and "pent-up anger and passion," respectively, thus claiming for special attention. Given that his Chinese poems show the beginning of Tang poetry with those elements inherent in it, it is apparent that they hold a significant status in the history of literature.