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A Study on Leedal's Poetry

박노현 1

1상지영서대학

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ABSTRACT

It is considered that Leedal(李達)'s literary value has not been in the spotlight after his time, because his social position as a man by a concubine was to be disdained. But the literary value of his poetry works had been considered to be the highest stage at that time. Those days he also got the great accomplishment of Chinese literary history in Korea as comparing to the three famous Chinese poets[三唐詩人]. First, Leedal's thoughts of his poems can be classified by three categories such as Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Although his major academical background was Confucianism in the view of that time, various themes are represented at the base of Buddhism or Taoism. It was discriminated for concubines' offsprings who to succeed in life at that time, which was unfair Confucianism system for them to reach the final goals. Therefore Leedal tried to transcend the difficulties of his reality by pursuing goodness and awakening, which contributed for him to regard as escaping his realities by seeking for ascetic and fantastical world. Secondly, the Analysis of Leedal's poems are categorized such as empathizing, describing natural surroundings, criticising realities, and so on. The empathizing parts represents his self-frustration of his real world, pursuit toward domiciling himself, and the sorrow of parting. And describing natural surroundings have the following characteristics; Leedal wandered over his whole life, which gave him the opportunity that natural states were always nearer distance. With his speculation and feeling style he described nature and pictured poems like a landscape painting or a painting with writing. These delicate and smart writing style are his characteristics of describing objectified nature. Thirdly, There are the realities criticized and symbolized poetically the spilt of the political party between East and West, the government plundering songs through children's mouth, and the sufferings and scattering here and there during the wars. Leedal described all of the existing situations with the sense for the reality and actuality.

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