이수광 시의 표현 방식과 미적 특성

Abstract

This study set out to discuss Lee Su-gwang's methods of expression and aesthetic characteristics in his poems based on a judgment that there should be research focused on his "expressions" in his poetry. The investigator identified three objects of his gaze including landscapes and things, himself, and worlds in his dreams and examined their respective patterns. His poems depicting landscapes and things showed a tendency of describing scenes just like paintings. Lee captured features of landscapes and things with his elaborate observation and expressed their features in sensible and animated ways. He would sometimes depict colorful aspects of landscape and things in a free atmosphere realistically and other times liken actual aspects to new ones through his imagination to display his original sense of beauty. In his poems about himself, the poet expressed his inner consciousness. He expressed many different emotions including his contemplation over his orientation toward "hiding" and his sources, his righteous wrath over war, and his usual feelings in various ways, whose patterns were using several ancient events related to his circumstances, comparing himself to people of old times that went into retirement or lived in poverty, empathizing with natural objects for his emotions, and gazing at his inside and expressing what was in it directly. Many of Lee's poems about worlds in his dreams depicted fairylands in the Jeolgu(絶句) form. Recalling his experiences in his dreams as much as possible, he described how he strolled about a fairyland, how he wished to soar to a fairyland, and how he wanted to solve problems in this world as a Taoist hermit with miraculous powers. He made records of his episodes in dreams rather than regarding them as wild fancies and made active use of his fairyland experiences in his dreams as content and materials of his poems after waking up from his dreams, which indicates that he expanded the areas and materials of creative poetry writing.