18세기 대구사족 최흥원崔興遠의 시세계와 내면 — 『역중일기曆中日記 』내 한시漢詩와 감회표출을 중심으로

Abstract

This study approaches towards the poetic world and inner side of Baekbulam (百弗庵) Choi Heung-won(崔興遠) by analyzing his literary works and diaries – his collections and Yeokjungilgi (曆中日記). First, it focuses on the fact that his Hansi(poetry written in Hanmun) were included in Yeokjungilgi as well as his collection. Some of the pieces are in common whereas most pieces in Yeokjungilgi are not included in his collections and the characteristics of the pieces in each book are distinguishable. The agony and sympathy are intactly exposed in Yeokjungilgi while he Neo-confucianist ideas and personal disciplines are expressed in front in his collections. It helps us to identify the circumstances of his writings which could help in building a history of his poetry. His collection and Yeokjungilgi build the inside and outside of his poetic world. Secondly, it approaches towards the characteristics of Yeokjungilgi in regard to the author’s agony and introspection. He had been writing Yeokjungilgi for over a half century that Yeokjungilgi itself could be the history of his lifetime. The diary displays how he had managed and maintained the family, the events occurred in managing relationships in his region and the emotions arisen from occasion to occasion - nervousness, regrets, criticism and even grudge over the conflict. However, he would not outwardly show his emotions. The series of these unspoken emotions show change in his times of senescence as the concerns of maintaining his family arose. There is a thread of connections in between the agony and introspection and his Hansi which was an unnoticed part of an influential literati and an administrator of 18th century Daegu. As a result of this study, it is shown that the author’s emotional line is thoroughly displayed in Yeokjungilgi and that the piece is a fruit of the conflicts and supplementations of his unstable states and insecure self.