'KASA', a form of Korean verse, occured at the end of Koryo dynasty and was enjoyed as a national literature for 600 years. It had formed contented Korean Literature with 'Shijo', a Korean verse which had lead our poems and songs Literature.
Among th...
'KASA', a form of Korean verse, occured at the end of Koryo dynasty and was enjoyed as a national literature for 600 years. It had formed contented Korean Literature with 'Shijo', a Korean verse which had lead our poems and songs Literature.
Among the various researches on this field, an attempt as a basic study is required to classify 'KASA' on contents for the consideration on contents.
Before beginning this study, I looked over lots of previous theories and classified 500 'KASA' works of famous men according to my own classification criteria. I represented those of famous men's works which has been known on writers and periods.
consequently songs maybe classified as follows.
(1) Songs of retirement in nature(3) (2) Songs of loyalty(11)
(3) Songs of admonishment(26) (4) Songs of excurtion(32)
(5) Songs of bravery (12) (6) Songs of eulogy(13)
(7) Songs of love (9) (8) Songs of custom (12)
(9) Songs of restrospection (21) (10) Songs of evangelism (192)
(11) Songs of admiration (17) (12) Songs of satire (6)
(13) Songs of patriotism (39) (14) others (80)