일엽 선시(禪詩)에 나타난 수사적 표현기법 - 적기수사법(賊機修辭法)을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Because Buddhist poetry is to express as a character what Esteemed Priest have found enlightenment through the Zen’s experience, they are used mainly illogical expressions those are different from ordinary common sense. It is the ‘Jeokgi Rhetoric’ that was created to analyze these unique expressive techniques and structures based on the Buddhist thinking and to derive the aesthetics of the Buddhist poetry. That's why western literary theory and criticism is difficult to read the meaning of Buddhist poetry that reveals the transcendental mental world. ‘Jeokgi Rhetoric[賊機修辭法]’ composes of three methods. First one is a ‘BanSangHapDo[反常合道]’ that turns everyday experience into conformity with the enlightenment. Next is a ‘Transcendental Metaphor[超越隱喩]’ that fuses and transcends between the same and difference. Last one is a ‘MuHanSilsang[無限實相]' that leaps and manifests infinitely from common parables and symbols. And they have inseparable relations with each other in terms of expression of buddhist poetry. In this paper, I examined the expression technique and the semantic structure of the Il Yeop’ buddhist poetry in this way. Her presentation of the text in Korean is simple at a glance, but the analysis of the application with the ‘Jeokgi Rhetoric’ reveals the meaning of the ‘wholeness of time and place equals emptiness’. Negative becomes positive, affirmative becomes negative, and positive and negative are unified into oneness, revealing the reality of magnetism. However, enlightenment through the practice of Buddhistic austerities can not be communicated in any language. That is the purpose of this paper, which il Yeop’ buddhist poetry still needs more consideration removing some curtains in the Buddhist poety.