촉석루 제영시의 역사적 전개와 주제 양상

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine the historical development of Chokseongnu’s pavilion(矗石樓) poetry and the internal characteristics of the works. In terms of re-recognition of tradition and creative succession, identifying the total amount of poetry is the most critical. Based on this, it is necessary to derive the consciousness of various themes reflected pavilion poetry. The results of reviewing the characteristics of the writer group, the form and the contents of the works are summarized as follows based on the collected data. First, there were 710 writers and 1028 works of 884 poem titles in Chokseongnu’s pavilion. This is tentative but it is the country’s largest size as a single pavilion to date. The largest number of the writers, over 49% of the total, were from Gyeongnam Province, and among them, about 87% were from western Gyeongnam Province, including Jinju. The biggest number of the writers were tourists, and many of the works were by officials involved in the governance of the city. Moreover, there were a number of writers with family members or colleagues who were writers. Second, approximately 87% of the total number of works, or about 893 poems, showed the time of creation. The number of works before the Japanese Invasion of Korea was 133, which was a relatively small distribution. Approximately 33% of the works, or 335 poems, were created after 1900, which was the result of mass production of works by writers from Gyeongnam Province who were born after the late 19th century. Third, among Chokseognu poetry, there was a significantly high number of seven-character poems, which accounted for 93%. Among them, seven-character regulated verse poems reached about 75%, indicating they were commonly enjoyed by many people. This was derived from the general creative tendency of rhyme-borrowing poems, which utilized the authority from the original works. Jeong Eulbo’s poem in the previous section served as the original work only until the Joseon Dynasty. In the late Joseon period, 40% of the people borrowed rhymes from Shin Yuhan’s works, which proves it was a big trend. In addition, poetic dictions associated with the historical sites of Japanese Invasion of Korea have been used customarily, which was clearly a different point from other palace-pavilion poems. Fourth, Chokseongnu poetry's themes could be divided into into four types: praise in the cultural landscape of Jinju, response to the Japanese Invasion of Korea and will for national salvation, the memories and internal reflections of patriotic heroes, the real purpose of tourism and the consciousness of the times. Since the late Joseon Dynasty, there had been a trend of creation with a theme that calls on patriotic heroes to have internal reflections or to promote the spirit of strong loyalty. As a result, many poems highlighting only outstanding scenery have disappeared, and it served as an occasion to achieve the correct consciousness of the times through Chokseongu tourism or writing poems. In this context, anti-national entertainment of the Japanese colonial era was strongly criticized using poems. I hope that this diachronic and positivistic study on Chokseongu’s pavilion will help not only enshrine the characteristics of poetic literature but also explore the characteristics of the literary world but also constitute various aspects of local literary history and further describe the history of Korean literature.