The purpose of this study is to research notion and romanticism of chinese poems of Lim Je. This way, I wanted to testify his conception of writer as an historical person and to testify his real feature through the beauty of his writings. Especially w...
The purpose of this study is to research notion and romanticism of chinese poems of Lim Je. This way, I wanted to testify his conception of writer as an historical person and to testify his real feature through the beauty of his writings. Especially with poems of beautiful mind, I wanted to extract expressive beauty only from the poems with their subject as kisaeng, escaping from existing studies with simple materials.
Discussions were as follows;
First, there prevailed social absurdity like disorder of politics, drought, starvation, tax, extortion, wandering, excessive labor, military service, poverty, covetous officials and contradiction of social station systems. He was born is this age and had a bureaucratic life not joining any parties. Therefore, he showed romantic, lyric and resistant poem world.
Second, I researched his notion to testify his concept of beauty of Chinese poems. Therefore I confirmed his notion of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. He showed Confucian concept on the basis of individual experience escaping from conception. In the writings expressed Buddhism, he wanted to show pure mind escaping from dirty world. He pursued spiritual shelter in an old buddha, and it means free expression of mind and is interpreted as criticism and resisting mind against real world by denying human condition of lives.
Third, I confirmed his personality and concept of history in 'poetic objects and romanticism.' It is different from the concept of general Confucianists in 16C. It is this point on which his romantic feature is emphasized.
(1) I could confirm his poetic attitude like wandering disposition, absorption into pure natural beauty, co-existence of self-reflection and speaker facing poetic attitude in 'discovery of natural beauty and lyric fulfillment.' He showed specific character by connecting internal reflection directly from concept of creative activity and literature of Taoism. Above all, concurrent of natural beauty and lyric fulfillment is underlined.
(2) He recognized reality and made it as a vehicle to self-reflection in 'reality recognition and resisting romanticism.' In other words, he recognized his situation of real self objectively, and he showed confronting conception against reality by accusing contradiction and absurdity in his age. And through his works derived from romanticism included in lyric mind, I could find his recognition on his concept for the reality.
(3) I studied on the works with tranquility, funeral poem, love, divorce, difficulty, hardship and good expression in 'poetic experience and routine work of beautiful mind.' He made himself as 'female speaker' not only to his poetic objects(kisaeng) but also to other person(kisaeng)'s poetic objects. His convert as female speaker is understood as a random reflection to his poetic objects, and a natural poetic attitude from poetic emotion.