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The World of Loneliness in Park Jook Seo’s Poetry

Won Ju Yeon 1

1동해중학교

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As the social orders were based on Neo-Confucianism which emphasized a patriarchal system in the Joseon era, all the clan rules were organized in an androcentric way. Because of the comparatively women’s lower position and the legislation of the discrimination of illegitimate children, the different domestic positions between wives and concubines were clearly defined, which led to the unfair treatment toward illegitimate children. Park Jook-Seo, an illegitimate daughter, was born in such era lacking women’s academic freedom and existing the severe discriminative treatment against illegitimate children, but she left no less than 166 poems in her collection of works, expressing her emotion of loneliness and sorrow that stemmed from her birth and martial life. She was so talented that she could write Chinese poems from her early childhood, but her life was not smooth because of her position as an illegitimate daughter. That is why her loneliness and desire was well depicted in her most works with her sorrow and poor health. In particular, Jook-Seo’s affection for her friend ‘Kuem Won’ who joined the same “Sam Ho Jeong” Poetry Club was emphasized in her works and so was the feeling of longing for her husband. Furthermore, a sense of missing her siblings she had spent her childhood being together with is rarely found in other female poets’ works and the works of the other members of the “Sam Ho Jeong” Poetry Club. Such her pathetic emotion depicted in her works can touch the heartstrings of the readers. This thesis will focus on “Emotion of loneliness and sorrow” in Jook-Seo’s poems and find out the roles of Chinese literature in our local societies.

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