애도 주제의 활용 양상과 그 변천 소고 ―南宋 哀悼詩를 중심으로―

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the utilization of mourning themes in Southern Song dynasty's mourning poems and their changes. The results caused by analyzing the characteristics of the Southern Song dynasty's mourning poems are summarized as follows. The first phase is that the culture of grief sharing was widespread. Unlike the case of Northern Song dynasty centering on collective creation, general people and their families began to appear as the subjects of mourning literature of Southern Song dynasty. The widespread feeling of sadness has also created a culture of mourning for the others through vicarious creation. The second phase is the diversity of the ways responding to human emotions. The Southern Song dynasty was the period shown the expansion of the mourning subjects and the segmentation in the ways of responding to grief. Thus, different emotional responses have been shown, according to public or private relationship among people. However, this trend of mourning themes centered on practicality handed over to the author's subjective view during the Southern Song dynasty. The third phase is the reconstructing of customs. Although the tendency praising the others' admirable deeds was consistent, a progressive trend combining both of praising and sadness began to appear in Southern Song dynasty. In conclusion, Southern Song’s mourning poems demonstrate the aspects of diversity and variety in utilizing mourning themes. This is an important case that has shown a drastic change in mourning poems, while leading to the necessity for follow-up research.