정몽주의 작품 수용을 통해 본 대학 한문 교재 한시 선정의 문제와 개선

Abstract

Jeong Mong-ju is a personage who trod diverse paths of life and created a variety of poems. As we face the same problem in case of other figures who left diverse traces of life, the task of selecting from the poetic works of Jeong Mong-ju for college texts makes us deeply contemplate how to do that. All the same, we haven’t considered properly the characteristics of his works such as their diversity, dignity, themes and subject matters and haven’t even applied appropriate criteria to the titles of his works. For the purpose of solving above-mentioned problems, I want to advise on what works we should put in college texts. I suggest the following as the criteria to select from the poetic works of Jeong Mong-ju and include them in college texts. First of all, the diverse works containing his traces of life should be chosen. But if we consider all his life paths, it is actually impossible to do the task of selecting from his works and including them in texts on the basis of his life. Therefore, I propose that besides considering his life, his mentality under his literary works be the criteria to choose his works for texts. The core of it is loyalty and its practice. I think that his loyalty and practice of it forming the foundation of his mentality is Jeong Mong-ju’s characteristic spirit. In selecting from his poems, valor and broad-mindedness as the representative dignity of his mental foundation must be taken into consideration.