亨齋 李稷의 한시에 나타난 ‘물’에 관한 상상력

Abstract

This paper presents an intensive investigation to how Hyeongjae Lee Jik perceived "water" in his Chinese poems and what he tried to say through it. As for methodology, the study applied the triangular structure to perceive objects among "ego," "objects" and "concepts." As a result, his poetry was characterized by the even appearance of realistic, ideological, and historical perceptions, of which the ideological ones were the most apparent in relation to water. His ideological perceptions of water played very important roles in presenting the Neo-Confucian cultivation theory effectively along with the logic of Confucianism and Buddhism′s fusion in an ideological context. It was because water had cleansing functions, which were embodied as efforts to prevent human greed and preserve natural law. Considering the correlativity of his perceptions of water, there is "human nature" in the extremity of his imagination of water in his poems. The human nature made various appearances in his works according to the logic of Confucianism and Buddhism′s fusion.