돈호법을 중심으로 본 시조 작시법

Abstract

This study explored various methods of apostrophe used in Si-jo, the Korean traditional fixed-form poetry. Apostrophe is one of the rhetoric devices that have been used most frequently in Si-jo, and since it is closely related to the structure of Si-jo and its conception, apostrophe should not be considered merely as an antiquated figure. In this light, this study aims to describe how to write Si-jo using apostrophe. Thus, the condition of using apostrophe and the types of objects from over two thousand pieces from the Si-jo anthology are described in this study. Tendency as the following were found. The first line of Si-jo, apostrophe tends to address objects or abstract ideas rather than human—preferably birds—and interrogative sentences are most common. Whereas, the 3rd and also the last line tends to address human, especially a boy valet 'dong-za(童子)', and imperative sentences are more relevant. The examination revealed that if apostrophe is meant to be used in Si-jo, it could offer the list of formulaic expressions and more or less settle the structure of the meaning. Furthermore, the effect of apostrophe could differ depending on the situation, but the conception is mainly concerned about the relationship with the audience or the object that is referred to. This study suggests that writing Si-jo could be regarded as the correlated system of conception, expression, and structure rather than just metrics. In this paper, the ways of writing Si-jo using apostrophe is described according to the way of discourse formation—‘inventio’, ‘dispositio’ and ‘elocutio’, which has been suggested by ancient rhetoric. For further study it would be interesting to look into the model or the strategy of writing Si-jo.