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A Study on Yun Ki尹愭′s Tallo-Shi歎老詩

  • Journal of Korean Literature
  • 2016, (34), pp.221-247
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Published : November 30, 2016

An, Soon-Tae 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

Tallo-Shi歎老詩 is a poem on a subject of sighing with age. The purpose of this paper is to study about Korean Tallo-shi that has been discussed recently and to clarify the feature of Yun Ki尹愭(1741~1826)′s Sino-Korean classical poem. It would be natural for people who experience symptom of aging to get a shock. Some people deny being old and bemoan consistently by getting older and some people try to accept it positively. These attitudes towards being old emerge in literature as well. They used to take one′s gray hair, hair loss, falling out of teeth and malfunction of eyesight, hearing, memory and energy as an object of sighing. And they took these physical change as an opportunity of inner study or enjoyed the leisure of their old age. Yun Ki used to bemoan by catching symptoms of aging but turned to positive attitude about getting aged. Bai Juyi白居易(772~846) was the one who had an effect on that change. Yun Ki used to say that he respected and quoted frequently poems that Bai Juyi wrote in his old age. Yun Ki tried to emulate Bai Juyi′s positive attitude towards getting aged and enjoying old age. He reflected actively that he could finally enjoy being free when he got old on his works. However Yun Ki was not able to enjoy his life like Bai Juyi did, therefore his works were not like Bai Juyi′s poem. The reasons are as following: First, Yun Ki had no friend to spend time with and expressed his loneliness through his poems. Second, He was no longer able to go on a trip since his energy fell off while Bai Juyi enjoyed his old age with his companions. Third, he had no money to drink, and even failed to keep pot boiling. It caused him to feel depressed. He could only console himself satisfying that he was at leisure and obviously it was not voluntary acceptance.

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