玉洞 李漵의 詠物詩 硏究

Abstract

This paper is written regarding Okdong Lee Seo’s ‘yeongmulshi’, that is a poem assimilating a creature or creatures for metaphoric purposes. Okdong Lee Seo’s remaining yeongmulshis are 160 some which are 12.5% of his 1,300 poems in total. As well known from previous researches, Okdong Lee Seo was one of the literati representing the mid and late Joseon period; devoted his life to reading, cultivation, and lecturing; and was a Confucian scholar deriving ‘literature harming the Dao(文章害道)’ from the concept of ‘the Dao primary, and literature minor(道本文末).’When Okdong’s character is defined as such, Okdong’s poetry can be definitized by his yeongmulshis. It is because a yeongmulshi is not a poem describing a creature itself. An object described in a yeongmulshi is not only a result of imagery and conceptualization but also a intentional creation incarnated by a poet’s literary skills and abilities. Indeed, through Okdong’s yeongmulshis, both his inner consciousness and his literary abilities can be examined at once. As Okdong’s yeongmulshis are examined, it can be revealed that they were tools for Okdong who was deeply aware of functions and roles of poetry to cultivate himself. For the reason, Okdong’s yeongmulshis are not for aesthetic purposes but for expressing his inner consciousness of his will to cultivate himself and of his pursuit of the ideal. However, Okdong’s yeongmulshi have a poem pure and clean like a piece of picture through describing his transparent and tranquil consciousness and his will for cultivation. Merely he avoided rhetorics and exaggerations and directly delivered his inner side arisen by an object, but Okdong’s consciousness and ideals which can be felf from his yeongmulshis more serenely and more deeply come to readers than those of poems with lots of literary rhetorics. Such yeongmulshis of Okdong show his poetic abilities, and the values and the meanings of Okdong’s yeongmulshis are at this point.