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Recognition of Reality and Poetic Figuration by Jon Je(存齋) Wi, Baek Gyu (魏伯珪)

  • The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Abbr : Korean Poetry and Culture
  • 2006, (18), pp.125-152
  • Publisher : The Society of Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

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ABSTRACT

This study analyzed the works which were based on a recognition of reality among Chinese poems by Wi, Baek Gyu and examined the aspect to what degree such works practiced a poetic realism. Wi, Baek Gyu described the reality of needy and poor life in a contemplative manner. At times, he adopted an indirect method, not a straight one. Even he tried to show the feature of reality as it was. Although such difference is a continuity of the same circumstances, it is related to what degree of distance the author kept in respect of the reality. Accordingly, it was thought that the possibility of materializing a poetic realism was not irrelevant to such context. If it is reviewed in terms of such point, the mode of actualizing a poetic realism that Wi, Baek Gyu showed can be summarized in three aspects. First, a poetic subject matter greatly exhibits a nature of actuality. Second, since a method of expression is elaborate, a factual character is obtained. Third, the aesthetics in expression is based on a reality. Such three points are related with the point of view in poetry that Wi, Baek Gyu established. Thus, the significance of a genuine sentiment in poetry lies in the fact that it practically showed that the reality, after all, should be realistically described.

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