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Cho Woo-In's time in Maeho and his literary work: MaehoByeolgok

  • Journal of Korean Literature
  • 2017, (35), pp.233-264
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Published : May 31, 2017

SHIN, HYUN WOONG 1

1한국기술교육대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper examined Cho Woo-In's time in Maeho and his literary work: MaehoByeolgok(梅湖別曲). Maeho is the lake at Sangju-si(尙州市) in Gyeongsang- buk-do Province(慶尙北道). Cho Woo-In(曺友仁, 1561~1625) wrote MaehoByeolgok, the poetic speaker of which expresses his excitement and impressions for coming and living at Maeho. First, the time to start living at Maeho was examined. It was known that the time was 1623 CE, but it was inferred that he set up house there before 1616 and wrote MaehoByeolgok provisionally before 1620 from his other works and the materials for him. Second, it was analyzed that MaehoByeolgok's composition is well organized and its poetic sentiment unfolds in a natural way. The sentiment starts from the excitement and goes through the expectation, the self-examination, the rumination, and reaches to the promise. Lastly, examining his consciousness for being emotionally deprived and the depression in MaehoByeolgok, it was found that it had derived from the dissatisfaction for his official life, negatively thought for his family, etc. As a result, that means MaehoByeolgok was the work of making up mind for him, and he regarded the Gasa as the genre, which expressed the worries and self-examination for his life.

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