杜牧 시에 대한 인지시학적 고찰 — 後期(833-852년) 시를 중심으로 = A Cognitive-Poetic Approach to the Poetry of Du Mu:An Analysis of His Late Works (833~852)

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This article reexamines the late poetry of Du Mu (杜牧), a representative poet of the Late Tang period, through the analytical framework of cognitive poetics. While previous studies have predominantly focused on thematic interpretation, formal features, patriotic sentiment, or decadent aesthetic tendencies in Du Mu’s works, the present study instead places the reader’s cognitive processes at the center of investigation. By employing Conceptual Blending Theory and Text World Theory both grounded in developments in cognitive science and cognitive linguistics this study elucidates how poetic meaning is constructed, activated, and emotionally received within the reader’s cognitive domain.
The analysis demonstrates that although Du Mu’s late poems ostensibly display elegant diction and refined imagery characteristic of Late Tang aestheticism, they in fact operate as complex cognitive-textual structures. Within these structures, historical consciousness, ethical and social critique, and existential anxiety interact dynamically through the reader’s processes of perception, inference, and emotional engagement. Such findings indicate that the aesthetic power of Du Mu’s poetry arises not solely from its rhetorical surface but from the reader’s cognitively mediated reconstruction of its layered meanings.
By foregrounding the role of the reader’s cognition, this study broadens the scholarly horizon of Du Mu research and proposes a productive methodological paradigm for interpreting classical Chinese poetry. The cognitive-poetic approach offers an explanatory model for understanding how poetic language invites conceptual integration, world-building, and affective resonance, thereby reshaping the meaning-making processes central to the reading of premodern Sinitic verse.