秋詩의 정서와 흰색 물상에 대한 小考 - 『欽定四庫全書·詠物詩』秋類를 대상으로

Abstract

Autumn and white have their respective unique images. Yeossichunchu provides specific descriptions of their connected images. Its descriptions were followed in ideological books during Han Dynasty, which is in the same orbit as the Principle of Five Elements. Autumn is expressed in white, and white corresponds to autumn in the Principle of Five Elements, in which they are symbolized for each other. Their combined images usually represent war and punishment. In the Principle of Five Elements, metal represents autumn and is expressed in cold and brutal images, implying such emotions as solemn, righteous, and angry. The study sorted out the roles of white natural features to emerge with the sense of autumn to classify emotions about autumn poetry and express those emotions as follows: First, they expressed graceful emotions, in which case the poets perceived nature with more leisure from a macroscopic perspective and highlighted the clear, cool, and pleasant weather of autumn. The white natural features found in those emotional expressions include dews, clouds, fogs, rivers, and the fox. Of them, white dews represented the solar term of autumn and held clear and peaceful images like clouds. Fogs and clear rivers also emphasized a romantic atmosphere, and the white fox guided all the poems toward bright and leisurely emotions with fairy tale images. Secondly, they expressed rich emotions, which highlighted autumn as the season of harvest with grain making frequent appearances. The white natural features found in those emotional expressions include white rice flowers, white lotus roots, and white cooked rice along with the healthy wrists of young ladies and the white reed fields. The poets tried to deliver rich and sound romanticism through those natural features. As they added dynamic depictions to their narrations, their poems came to life more lively with their rich emotions and warm passion highlighted clearly. Finally, they expressed sorrowful emotions, in which case the poets put forward the cold autumn weather and used such white natural features as dews, fogs, sandy beaches, walls, and water chestnuts. Trying to express those emotions, the poets highlighted the bleak images of late autumn and the cold, distant, blurry, and delicate nature of white natural features. The white natural features were accompanied by withering flowers and plants, crickets, frosts, sound of winds, wild geese, paper blankets, sound of Japanese floor mats, and dim light. Those audio-visual elements formed an image group with the white natural features, expressing sorrowful emotions.