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The Symbiosis and Problem of ‘Three Jang Six Gu’ and the ‘First Gu of Jongjang’ in Sijo —Investigating the Form and the Meter of Sijo—

Choi, Hongwon 1

1상명대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aims at focussing on that there is difference in the scope and object of the terms about ‘three Jang six Gu[3章6句]’ and ‘the first Gu of Jongjang[終章1句]’, which are the key concepts to account for the fixed form of Sijo[時調]. I set a goal to solve the problem by tracing the historical origin. In the process of analyzing the materials of the Sijo[時 調] study of the beginning stage, I clarify that the ‘first Gu of Jongjang [終章1句]’ is a meter unit based on syllabic meter of three letters while the Gu[句] of ‘three Jang six Gu[3章6句]’ is a unit to have one meaning. I arrive at a conclusion that there have been a variety of Gu[句] concepts in Sijo[時調], for example, six Gu[6句], twelve Gu[12句], and eight Gu[8 句], and they are derived from different backgrounds and awareness one another. I try to solve the problem through distinguishing meters and units of meaning by adding terms and concepts like foot, Madi and Tomak, in addition to existing Gu[句]. I conclude that new understanding is needed beyond the characteristics of meters because the first Madi of Jongjang [終章] functions as the essence of Sijo esthetics. I especially pay attention to the truth that the first Madi of Jongjang[終章] applies to an independent Jang in Kagok-chang[歌曲唱] and look into the effect and function in the meaning dimension. Accordingly, I suggest that there should be an attempt to explain the esthetic effect of the first Madi of Jongjang as a new perspective and concept like Kagok-chang[歌曲唱]. I hope that this study might examine and criticize the outcome of the Sijo research academically which was conventionally accepted and kept for the most part in the meanwhile and could be a little chance to be embodied to appropriate theories and terms about the explanations of Sijo[時調] which were stated in the abstract and normative dimension.

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