八吾軒 金聲久의 生涯와 詩世界 考察

Abstract

Paloheon Kim Sung-gu is a scholar and politician from Bonghwa, North Gyeongsang Province, who played an active role in the middle and late Joseon periods of the 17th century. His academic roots go back to Kaeam Kim Woo-wook and Donggang Kim Woo-ong, which inherits the academic tradition of Toegye. Paloheon Kim Seong-gu was very talented since he was young, and when he was around ten years old, he was praised and recognized for his writing. He passed the civil service examination and entered government service. After that, he was demoted to Jeju Island for impeaching Uam Song Siyeol and barely returned three years later. Later, in 1689, when the Namin faction took power, he again entered enter government service. However, in 1694, when the Namin faction lost power again, the Soron faction and Noron faction took power, and he immediately resigned and returned home. Later, he gave up his life as a politician. He built a house called Paloheon in Haejeo-chon and lived as an ordinary person for 14 years. Throughout his life, he was a politician, scholar, and literary expert who survived political turbulence and endured a relatively minor disaster. His works pretty much reflect his life. Below is a brief summary of his poetic world. First, his poetry includes works that expressed his guilt because he could not make his parents happy enough as a son and he did not serve well as a loyal subject for the nation. His poetry can be divided into three types. The first type includes works that expressed how sad he was because he did not please his parents as a son and did not serve as a loyal servant to the king. The number of his works of this type is the largest. The next type includes the works that reveal the guilt he felt for the above-mentioned reasons. The last type is the works in which he revealed both the burden and guilt he felt because he failed to play his roles as a son and loyal servant. Second, he wrote poems describing how much he loved the people and dearly missed his hometown. He wrote many works that expressed affection for the people as a governor and longing for his hometown. There are even works depicting scenes in his dream where he lived back in his hometown. These works are often associated with his affection for his parents. His third type of poetry contains a reflection on his faults in Jeju Island. He thought that he was demoted to Jeju because he was angry at the king, and he wrote about mistakes he made in the past. In other words, during his stay in Jeju, his writing expressed the reflections of what he had neglected or misunderstood and the mistakes he had made in the past. Writing about him in this paper is just the beginning. In the future, more excellent researchers should do a multifaceted review of his literature. I look forward to the passionate challenges of other researchers.