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Haengdang Yun Bok and Aesthetics of Narrative Poems

  • The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Abbr : Korean Poetry and Culture
  • 2014, (34), pp.369-418
  • Publisher : The Society of Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Choi Han Sun 1

1전남도립대학교

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ABSTRACT

This thesis aims to keep track of the life of Haengdang Yun Bok(尹復) and the aesthetics of his narrative poems. He was born as a son of Choi Bu(崔溥) who was a disciple of Yun Hyojeong, and learned scholastic tradition of his family from his elder brother. Yun Hyojeong(尹孝貞) played a great role to hand down Yeongnam Study to Honam province. He entered a government service at the age of 27 and experienced various jobs in and out of court. Especially, when he took office as a Busa in Andong, he and his family members associated with the great scholar Toegye(退溪), which contributed to Honam Study. Haengdang's poems succeed to the tradition of Honam narrative poem and became a model for the next generation. The theme of his poems focuses on the standardized model and moral discipline, respect for the classics, emphasis on the goodness and righteousness, respect for doing homecoming and introspection and admiration for the virtue and self-cultivation. His narrative poem displays mainly his opinion with narrations such as (1) if we do certain things (2) we must do what (3) when somebody do something (4) while we do something (5) even if we do something (6) we must do something. Also his supple and breathtaking style fascinates the reader's attention with developing power. The other method of his writing includes the characteristics such as (1) insertion (2) statement (3) expansion (4) conclusion in order. Finally, the lyricism in his poem cannot be ignored. These characteristics is the one which can be distinguished from other poets. Even if his poem is the poem which deals mainly with narrative, considering that it is a branch of lyricism, his poems can be recognized as the explanatory, lyrical poem, not as the abstract or connotative poem.

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