李商隱의 「無題詩」를 통해 본 환상세계

Abstract

Li Shang Yin, who represented aestheticism in Wantang period(晩唐) is a poet leaving so much poetry about affection. He didn't expose his inner heart politically or personally in his poetry because he had been living his life in unfortunate and melancholy. So, his poetic characteristic is to use the figurative and deposition skill developing stories in a roundabout and attractive ways. Because of this characteristic, his poetry expressed in vague and unclear and it caused confusion to the readers by different interpretation but, these peculiar aesthetics was evaluated greatly in aesthetics at that time. Untitled poem receiving full attention among his lyric poetry is especially prominent as "Rare and precious flower" in ancient China poetry since it is in depth and beauty, and has his own peculiar character. But, it has no conjecture also on poet's intention about the subject and subtitle due to his creation background. Therefore, many people have interpreted his poem based on the principle of biography and life which was the conventional China way to translate poetry. Untitled poem of Li Shang Yin has been interpreted mostly by the method centred around love consequently. However, we need to analyze his poem objectively in various aspects focusing on his own expression way in "vague" and "unclear". This report found out his vague fantasy world from Untitled poem accordingly, which has been neglected searching for the original concept so far. We can say that fantasy is the essence of all literature and the creation by imagination. This is the unacquainted state and the mystery area which are unascertainable with man's experience and awareness. Such like unacquainted state and mystery area may be connected with vague thing, namely, beautiful and nonsensical thing because of elusive fantasy like a dream. Then fantasy can be limited to unreal and surreal creation. We understand the poetic fantasy world by analyzing these unreal and surreal element as "transcendence of space-time" and "pursuit of the world for a legendary hermit with miraculous power" in the Untitled poem of Li Shang Yin.