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A Study on Gweon-Pil's 「Chi-Si-Ga(The Song of Being Drunk)」

  • The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Abbr : Korean Poetry and Culture
  • 2005, (15), pp.253-273
  • Publisher : The Society of Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Jung,Sang-Kyun 1

1서울시립대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Gweon-Pil(1569~1612) was a great poet in the middle period of the Yi dynasty. His poetic talent was estimated as the highest class of the age by Heo-Gyun(1569~1618) who wrote a preface to Seok-Ju-So-Go (Collected Poems of Gwoen-Pil). In the days of the king Seon-Jo of Yi dynasty was the war Japanese invasion of Korea. At the time Gweon-Pil advocated war. However the war situation was bad. The general Kim-Deok-ryeong (1567~1596) was intrigued against and died on the scaffold. Taking the subject matter from this event, Gweon-Pil wrote the poem 「Chi-Si-Ga(The Song of Being Drunk)」. Once a day he looked a book in dream which was written by the general Kim-Deok-ryeng. In the book, he said, was the poem 「Chi-Si-Ga(The Song of Being Drunk)」. Gweon-Pil had a Kim-Deok-ryeong complex. He said in 「Chi-Si-Ga」 that “I do not want a great achievement and a beautiful woman but just a long sword”. The symbolism of ‘long sword’ is a power in general, ‘the imaginary phallus’ and ‘the phallic power of his father’ in psychological point of view The beauty of 「Chi-Si-Ga(The Song of Being Drunk)」 is a tragic one. The song contains the meaning that Gweon-Pil attempted to be the imaginary phallus for the mother (for his country) in dream which is impossible in real world.

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