<贈參議公謫所詩歌>를 통해 본 李匡明 漢詩의 일고찰

Abstract

Lee, Gwang-myeong had a pen name of ‘Haeakjangin’, who was a disciple and the grandson-in-law of Ha Gok(pen name), Jeong, Je-doo, the founder of Ganghwa School. He lost his father at an early age and moved to Ganghwa Island, where he immersed himself in the scholarship receiving the lesson of Ganghwa School of Jeong, Je-doo before the occurrence of Eulhaeoksa(Death in prison in the Year of the Swine) in 1755, but the incident of Eulhaeoksa arisen among the fierce political fight between the parties of Noron and Soron totally changed his life. In the year of the occurrence of the incident of Eulhaesaok, he was branded as a rebel linked with his uncle Lee, Jin-yu and exiled to the town of Gapsan in the Northern Gateway, where he finally ended his life at the age of 78 after 24 years of exile. Although Lee, Gwang-myeong lived an unfortunate life in a long exile, Gapsan, the place of exile, was a space for him to create new Chinese poems. In one word of Lee, Gwang-myeong's poems, it can be said that it is ‘a sad song of solitude and sorrow’. When Sim, No-sung saw a poem left by Lee, Gwang-hyeon who was Lee, Gwang-myeong’s younger cousin of paternal side, he said that “The landscape full of pain makes it impossible for anyone to read the poem to the finish.”. Lee, Gwang-myeong’s Chinese poems also contain poetic mood and level similar to this poem, in which solitude and sorrow are the dominant atmosphere, and he expressed his inner conflicts and emotions as they were without moderation and embellishment. This is the distinctive feature of Lee, Gwang-myeong's poems from other poems created in the place of exile, and it seems to have resulted from his tendency of creation emphasizing the manifestation of real scene(nature) rather than rhetorical techniques or carving of phrases when creating Chinese poems. And, Lee, Gwang-myeong took an interest in the scenery and characters of Gapsan and actively captured them in his poems. This type of work, which can be described as the "topography" of the Northern Gateway, has great significance even in the category of the exile poetry in the late Joseon Dynasty. Because he captured various aspects of Gapsan including the culture, customs, and characters of the exile, and presented the reality and lifestyle of the local people at that time. And, he painted the new space spread out in front of him more realistically, not with the spirit and perspective of an aristocrat or bureaucrat, but with the eyes of an ordinary scholar. Moreover, this type of Chinese poems also offers a glimpse of more diverse human geographical environment and climate of Gapsan, which are not found in the poetry of “Yizupungsoktong”. Finally, from a formal point of view, Lee, Gwang-myeong made a trial attempt actively using the ancient poems for creative purposes. In this regard, we can get a glimpse of his efforts and new attempts to express the inner emotions and materials that he was trying to express by moving away from the formation of ‘five Chinese characters in each line’ and ‘seven Chinese characters in each line’. This type of ancient poems is also an important piece of work to measure the personal poetic talent and capacity of Lee, Gwang-myeong.