眉巖 柳希春의 文學世界

Abstract

Miamilgi and poetry of Miam Yu Huichun (1513~1577) are highly regarded from the perspective of literary history. Therefore, this article examines his literature, in particular, sino-Korean poetry, sijo, and dairy. Taken together, findings from this article lead to the following conclusions:He attempted to literature from a viewpoint of a system. In the case of sino-Korean poetry, for example, contents were weighed more than form in poetry writing having jeolgu(7 eon, especially) in most cases. His poetry can be categorized into couples’ love via poetic communication, self-discipline through academic refinement, loyalty to the king, affection of the people, friendship, sentiment, and self-reflection. Also, his poems are divided into those created while in exile and those written after release from exile and reinstatement. During the exile, he wrote poems mostly about self-discipline via academic refinement, friendship, and affection of the people, while after the release from exile and reinstatement, his poems sang about loyalty to the king, sentiment, self-reflection, and couples’ love via poetic communication in most cases. Among others, literary communion and conjugal love with his wife Song Deokbong through poetry is one of the characteristics of his poetry. Furthermore, daily lives or experiences are major themes of his poems, most of which express what happened naturally as they were plainly. When it comes to sijo, all of the three pieces take the form of pyeong sijo and sing about true love for the king and reign of peace. Yu Huichun is viewed as embodying his feelings literally into sijo by expressing them in a reserved way. As far as the diary is concerned, Miamilgi, the diary of Yu Huichun (including versions written by himself and 이본) was kept from Oct. 1, 1567 to May 13, 1577 and survived up to now. The diary not only shows the characteristics of dairy literature such honest confessions, clear and simple expressions, description of his feelings, sought for truth, unique awareness of history, spirit of record, pursuit of morality, and inclusion of attributes by type, but also contains a variety of contents including sijo(3 pieces), sino-Korean poetry (83 pieces), literary views, criticism about poetry and literature as well as distribution of classical novels, folklores, dramas, episodes, and historical romances. Among remaining diaries, Miamilgi is a rare piece that contains various literary genres. Especially, the work is well appreciated in terms of diary literature. Yu Huichun expresses strong interest in and insight into the whole nation covering the government and the people through literature, Miamilgi, among others. Moreover, he showed how a literary person should behave and what he should seek. Therefore, his status in history of literature (diary literature, in particular) is considered very high.