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Perception of poetic orientation of Yulgok Yi Yi and characteristics of his poetic world

  • The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Abbr : Korean Poetry and Culture
  • 2013, (31), pp.5-34
  • Publisher : The Society of Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Ko, Myeong-shin 1

1강릉원주대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study examined the perception of poem of Yulgok Yi Yi in his works. In『Jeongeonmyoseon』Yulgok praised poem as the essence of human language. And, he approached poem from the point of usefulness, which was similar to the position of traditional Confucianism view for self-training and governing others with poem. Furthermore, Yulgok argued his view of literature that ‘as Way is formless due to its mysterious characteristics, poem is an expression of Way by means of writing'. Such perception of poem has three distinctive features in his works. First, he embodied ordinary life by attributing poem in a natural way. Second, he stressed the specific image of objects which are seen, which means empirical authenticity. Third, he argued the aspect of awakening of the world by creating right base of ruling through criticism of reality. Majority studies on poems of Yulgok tend to link his Taoistic idea, to introduce his poetic idea based on『Jeongeonmyoseon』or to figure out aesthetic feature of his poetic world. Therefore, this study is meaningful in that it thoroughly focused on his poetic world with his poetic works in the center.

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