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The Significance of Geojedo(巨濟島) and Representation of Exile in the Poems of WooAhm(寓菴) Hong Eun Chung(洪彦忠)

  • The Research of the Korean Classic
  • 2012, (26), pp.175-212
  • Publisher : The Research Of The Korean Classic
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > Korean classic prose

Kim Bo Kyeong 1

1인제대학교

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ABSTRACT

Involved in the Gabja Annihilation, WooAhm Hong Eun Chung(1473 -1508) was exiled to Geojedo for two years during which he created around 60je(題)(approximately 110pieces) that composed one quarter of his entire oeuvre. This study analyzes the representation of Geojedo and Hong Eun Chung’s experience of exile in the following three aspects. First, island as a prison—the figure of prisoner and sense of separation. During the Gabja Annihilation, his father Hong Gui Dal was executed and his brothers were exiled to Geojedo. What the distinctive in Hong’s poems are the reality of detainment in an isolated island, claustrophobic sense and the demise of family. The representation of prison and the figure of prisoner are accompanied with the sense of separation, in which depression and lamentation is more dominant than anger or frustration. Second, island as a space of culture—the consolation and self-development through poetry and friends. Most of Hong’s works were involved with relationship as he was surrounded by many colleagues who had the same fate in Geojedo. Geojedo, particularly after a group of literati including Lee Haeng, became a locus of cultureand cultural exchange as the exiled, intellectual in and outside of Geojedo frequently visited and participated in the intellectual activities in the island. Consoled under this circumstance, Hong could communicate and developed himself in literature. Third, island as a passage—contemplation, acceptance of his fate and discovery of truth. During the time he spent in Geojedo, Hong contemplate on the world and himself to find the truth. He found the topics as to who he was and how he should live the rest of life in the everyday life of exile and as a result he accepted the given situation and turned more introspective. As his father’s pseudonym, HuhBaek(虛白), describes, he accepted what was given to him and chose to find the truth of "huhshil(虛室)" rather than manage public affairs. Hong secluded himself after returning from the exile not just because of the illness. The way he accepted his exiled life in Geojedo determined the rest of his life. His exiled life, Geojedo and poetry led to "find the way to the truth of huhshil," and determined the life after the exile.

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