覺齋 河沆의 道學詩와 「西臺八詠」

Abstract

Nammyong Jo Sik thought that poetry writing provokes the sense of arrogance that it interferes with the meditation for his negative position on the matter. Therefore, the Nammyong School had negative or passive tendency toward the poetry works. However, one of the pupils of Nammyong, Gakjae Ha Hang, had significant interests in the poetry works and his poetry work was assessed to be outstanding. If so, what kind of relativity in the poems he wrote with the Dohak that Ha Hang strived for? The critical mind of this article starts from this point and the attention is paid to Dohak Poetry written by Ha Hang as a way for resolving this issue. As a result, Dohak Poetry of Ha Hang is intended to display the Dohak that he strived for through literature, and its efficacy is profoundly related to educate the others as well as the meditation of one's own. Nammyong and other scholars of the Nammyong School considered poetry writing as a negative endeavor but Ha Hang rather made effort to establish the efficacy of Dohak through poetry. Pursuant to such conclusion, in the academic context of the Nammyong School, the works to clarify understanding and characteristics of literature established by an academic sector, leading for Ha Hang to Ha Soo-il to Ha Hong-do, is shown to be on the ensuring task to be undertaken. Furthermore, there is a clear critical mind to begin the studies to classify diverse characteristics of the academic sector and confirming how it has been handed down under a great flow of Nammyong.