荷江 朴齊璟의 보령전원시 고찰

Abstract

Hagang Park Je-Kyoung was a poet and government official serving as Boryeong County Governor for two years from 1897 in the late period of the Joseon Dynasty. Even though Hagang created about 800 Chinese poems, his reputation as a poet in the late period of the Joseon Dynasty was not revealed. However, Hagang was an unrivaled poet leaving numerous pastoral poems by respecting Tao Yuanming’s poetical style till the last moment of the Joseon Dynasty, and especially, it is marvelous to see that his works written when he was Boryeong County Governor, still show the nature filled with vitality and scenery changing in each season of Boryeong County. Contrary to most of the government officials of the Joseon Dynasty who were stuck in the conceptual and restrained poetical style by aiming for Chinese poetry in Song-style or Tang-style, Hagang was a pastoral poet who created many pastoral poems while longing for nature and countryside. Like this, Hagang was out of the trend of poetic literature at that time, so he might not receive the proper literary evaluation. As an incumbent government official, he was talking about being stuck in his annual salary as much as five horses. His goal was to do farming for himself by cultivating the land one day, so his poetry fully contained the natural phenomenon itself, and the background of his poetry was always nature. When Hagang was 72 years old, he served as Teukjingwan(official who helped the king’s study) in the Royal Court. However, the period when Hagang was 67-68 years old while working as Boryeong County Governor was the most peaceful time with the most activities as a poet. About 200 poems that were 1/4 of Hagang’s poems were created for two years while he was working as Boryeong County Governor. Hagang’s poetry not only moves the readers to the center of warm spring in Boryeong nature filled with flowers and singing birds, but also shows the true value as warm and cozy pastoral poetry that could arouse nostalgia. His poetry is filled with the vitality of Boryeong nature 120 years ago, which makes people wonder how come it could be felt so cozy. Therefore, this thesis aims to examine Hagang’s poetic world by selecting his pastoral poem showing the lifestyle of farmers by communing with nature and famous sights in Boryeong at that time.