月皐 趙性家의 시인적 면모에 대하여

Abstract

In this paper, I talked about poems of Wolgo, Cho Seong-ga who lived in Jin-ju, Korea in the 19th century. He was best pupil of Gi Jeong-jin who was a representative scholar of the 19th century. After meeting Gi Jeong-jin, Cho Seong-ga set an aim in moral philosophy and gave up the study of rhetoric. But he could not abandon his passion for poetry. Although he had a conflict between moral philosophy and rhetoric constantly, he wrote remarkable poems continuously. Among his literary accomplishment, I paid attention to epicedium and Jirisan poems especially. Writing epicedium, he consciously tried to show his all capabilities as a poet. He continuously wrote epicedium for his acquaintance, so his epicedium can be regarded as a little history of people around him. In Jirisan poems, he described clean nature and naive customs of Jirisan impressively. He had boundless love and pride for Jirisan where he lived, and thought that the way of Confucianism was bodied out there. Under the situation that western culture spread over the Orient, he cherished culture of Confucianism around Jirisan all the more.