白雲 李奎報 文學에 있어서의 桂陽

Abstract

This study has researched the consciousness and its change in verse and prose literature which Baek-woon wrote when he was relegated to Kye-yang. It has clarified through Kye-yang literature why Baek-woon as a original Confucianist lived as a government-patronized writer in his later life in the military regime. The relegation to Kye-yang was a shock to Baekwoon to the point of recognizing as a place of exile even the appointment as Dohobu governor. Thus, the features of Kye-yang was Kye-yang literature ambivalent. It is because the thought about Kye-yang when he was first demoted to Kye-yang and received a hint of coming back to kaeseong was opposed. In the early life in Kye-yang was desperate in that he could die of wound poison in a secluded place. However, after the power holder Choi Chung-heon died and his son Choi Yi newly gained power, his literature contents changed. Kye-yang looked like an island town surrounded by the sea on three sides when he was first assigned but it was changed into beautiful scenery one when he received a suggestion of comeback to a heart of political world. Kye-yang was seemingly changed to a place to stay for a short, strolling and enjoying from the place to leave immediately. Baek-woon's consciousness in his literature had a tendency of exile literature. However, Baek-woon literature did not imply the aspect of delegated loyalist unlike presentative writers such as Gulwon and Kaui who spoke without reserve and delegated due to the false accusation of the opposing party. Also, it did not reflect the charateristics of Baek Nak-cheon's exile literature. They are similar in that they were aware of delegation as exile and afterwards, their attitudes as a governor in a Confucianist mind were considerably different. After Bae-woon passed the civil service examination in his youth, he could not go into government service and then entered on an official career only after writing a poem of seeking a government position from a power holder. However, his literature turned into self-protection values toward a successful career after he was aware of realistic obstacles that he could not perform his duty by traditionally dynastic norm because of dismissal from office and repetitive delegation. It is Kye-yang literature that made a change in worldly wisdom values. Therefore, Kye-yang literature means the changing aspect of distorted life as a writer who could not help living in sympathy with the immoral era.