The aim of this thesis is to analyze Yunmin Lee Gawon’s Kumgang Mountain travel poetry, Dongzhungpyun.
Yunmin himself said that he was addicted to landscapes and traveled around the country. After he traveled Gangwhado and Gyungzhu, he visited Kumga...
The aim of this thesis is to analyze Yunmin Lee Gawon’s Kumgang Mountain travel poetry, Dongzhungpyun.
Yunmin himself said that he was addicted to landscapes and traveled around the country. After he traveled Gangwhado and Gyungzhu, he visited Kumgang Mountain when he was 23 years old.
The main motif of his travel is because of the reputation and beauty of Kumgang Mountain, but another motif to visit there is to inspire him. He not only wrote the poetry to record the beauty of Kumgang Mountain, but wrote it out of spontaneous overflow of feelings.
The mode and structure of this poetry is special. It consists of 588 phrases, and it has 3rhymes every four phrases not like usual poetry.
The features of the poetry is that he repeatedly used the same letters in short phrases and that he completed the sentences using the names of Kumgang Mountain’s rocks and falls. Also, he specifically described Manmulsang and Mogilsang.
When Yunmin conceived his poems about Kumgang Mountain, he was inspired by the world of Taoist hermits. He portrayed the landscape of the Mountain as if he was one of the Taoist hermits and also looked closely on the sites related to the hermits. On top of Taoism, he was also inspired by Buddhism. He wrote the stories of the monk living in Kumgang Mountain, but most of them were native stories. Other than those contents, he also sang about his ancestors and the history of the country.