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The study of Unfortunate consciousness that appears in Yuseonsa by Heonanseolheon: On the basis of poetic-word statistics and analysis

SON SIEUN 1

1전북대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Heonanseolheon is evaluated as a woman writer who showed distinct writer consciousness under the order of Confucianism. In her Chinese poems, conflicts between self and world and the various responses about them is represented well. This paper aims at investigating the process to realize unfortunate consciousness. Yuseonsa is an object of this study. 'Unfortune' means 'didn't meet'. Therefore unfortunate consciousness has a difference according to what or who the object of meeting is. Yuseonsa isn't text that dreams of Seongye in order to look away and escape from dark reality. Seongye in Yuseonsa is the escapeway from reality. It is not only space to desire and escapeway in order to forget pain and trouble that are hard for her to control. The meaning of emotion is as important as Yuseon. Therefore it is focused on involved emotion and writer consciousness when Yuseonsa is analyzed. Emotional context in Yuseonsa is found through statistics and analysis of poetic-word. The selection of poetic-word set on the basis of the emotional contribution. This paper intends to find mechanism of creating meaning by suggesting a line which includes syllables in a poem. Heonanseolheon tried to overcome the lack of reality by representing emotion and desire as they are. The stronger the desire to overcome reality got, the stronger the oppression of society became. This motive is expressed by aiming for Seongye. It is interpreted as an attempt to transcend through emotional sink. Heonanseolheon who became a goddess in an ideal land enjoyed the placidity in Yuseonsa. It's certain that Yuseon is a fantasy world of Heonanseolheon. However, It's hard to assert that Heonanseolheon overcame the limit of reality through Yuseon. She dreamed of transcending reality, but she failed. She had to returned to reality. As a result, her sinking sensation got worse and side effect occurred. This side effect is the very unfortunate consciousness. The main theme in Yuseonsa is human and environment, which is the object and cause of unfortune. Therefore Yuseon of Heonanseolheon always ends up incompletion.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.