사대부적 이상의 성실한 실천 - ­ 택당 이식 시 연구 ­

Abstract

This essay investigates how Taekdang Yi Sik realized the literati ideal in multiple dimensions, focusing on his poetry from The Selected Works of Taekdang. For this purpose, I articulate the concept of the literati(士大夫) into the scholar(士) and the official(大夫). Taekdang pursued academic truth painstakingly, without being controlled by the success or failure of cⅣil service examination or the political party. He regarded the literati as those who serve for the country and its people and he created outstanding poems on the marginal regions which most officials avoided being assigned to and serving for. For him, the ethical politics of the literati could be achieved only through passion. In this context, Taekdang took on his own passion to commit himself to the mission as a literatus. His passion can be perceⅣed in terms of: physical and embodied passion; and emotional passion resulting from sacrificing hermitage in nature with his beloved family. He was especially in deep agony when he could not take care of his family properly due to his duty for the country. At the same time, he never idealized his own mission and public responsibility; instead, he deepened the meaning of passion into the existential issue of every commoner who was lⅣing on the road. Especially, he interpreted his own passion on a more unⅣersal, popular level, adapting the titles and themes of East-Asian classical ballads.