梧淵 金冕運의 생애와 시문학

Abstract

Oyeon Kim Myeon-un held an important position in the Confucian scholar community in Udo, the eastern Gyeongsang region (east of the Nakdong River) in the 19thcentury. He left a total of 140 pieces of Sino-Korean poetry. Most of his poems were composed to exchange with people around him or chaunsi (次韻詩), poems that rhymes with characters borrowed from other poems. Oyeon’s poetry reveals a literary characteristic and the life of Confucian scholars in the eastern Gyeongsang region who communicated their sincerity and encouragement through poetry. Oyeon’s chaunsi, bounsi (步韻詩), yongunsi (用韻詩), jeungbyulsi (贈別詩), and mansi (挽詩) were important literary methods to express sympathy and communication. Even when he was facing difficulties such as the deaths of people close to him, impoverished in reality, and physically immobile due to an illness, he expressed his thoughts through his poetry. He displayed his works to people around him and actively sought advice, to cultivate his literary talent. Therefore, there is a need for a further study from the perspective that he was succeeding the poetic tradition of Nammyung School emphasizing the practical poetry. Furthermore, Oyeon’s reflective works such as jeseoksi (除夕詩), watch-night poems that showed another characteristic of Oyeon’s poetic world. These poems created a style that expressed poetry within a silent scenery with simple and natural words creating a pure and leisurely old-world flavor. This style seems to be emphasizing the revelation of a natural temperament and secluded consciousness of the author. In particular, the subject consciousness of being content amid poverty and taking pleasure in acting honest shows Oyeon’s literary characteristic. This provides an insight that Oyeon succeeded the literary tradition of the Nammyung School which pursued the transcendence of worldly values by overcoming difficulties in the poems.