기몽시(記夢詩) 연구

A study on a dream-describing poem

&nbsp;&nbsp;Dream-describing poems were, in this paper, classified into three groups, depending upon what they describe, and discussed to analyze not only their literary efficiency but also the meaning which they boil down to.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;A dream-describing poem about a sightseeing gets its motivation from a fervent desire toward either an other world or an other land. An ascetic dream-describing poem out of them is motivated by a desire for unrealistic hermit world, which commonly leads to the cause for poetic work. The hermit world comes into existence as a complementary ground of satisfying our desire, a target of sheer yearn, or an inaccessible space of idealistic mystery, according to how close a dreamer is to a hermit world. A dreamy arbour in Kwon-Phil&quot;s a dream-describing poem result in an intoxicating town with the scene of unworldly mountain village, and has the meaning of his own conceptional Utopia. So-Sae-Yang&quot;s dream-describing poem was written in a specific technique to describe his past by himself as a present dreamer, after he dreamed of a place visited in a time of his childhood. A dream-describing poem about a sightseeing is caused by a poet&quot;s imagination to create that kind of work, being weaved with his enthusiastic desire for a specific time and space, whose detail, in addition to its extent, takes possibly control of soaring imagination.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;A dream-describing poem about meeting is based on a yearning for an object which can&quot;t be accessed in our real world. A spirit in dream freed from a body enjoys meeting a counterpart in the poem developed in the art of dialogue in which spirits under dream falls back on each other, so that a love affair transcending life and death is made up. However, since the writers of dream-describing poem in the Chosun dynasty are the officials of noble birth and there is no climate revealing their yearn after a lover, all they mainly meet in their dream are confined to a family member, a king, a respectable person, a friend, a dead man etc. Besides, a poem developing a yearn after a friend goes into and out of a stage of dream after a counterpart they miss. And dream-describing poems about meeting can be divided into a short one and a long according to its form; the latter intensively reveals the fancy of meeting by means of describing details, whereas the former describes the extremeness of both solitude and sorrowfulness by extremely contrasting &quot;dream-oneness&quot; with &quot;awakening-separation.&quot; An esthetic feature of dream-driving poem is that it maximizes the sublime effect of sorrowful beauty, combining a scene with a missing mind by genuinely drawing each situation in the dream.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;A dream-describing poem whose issue is a intimate relationship or a remoteness between reality and dream shows that reality can&quot;t be separated from dream and reality can&quot;t also be combined with dream. Dream belongs to the unfeasible area of fervent wish far from the real world. Such an unfeasible wish enables a writer to dream a ardent desire. The more relentless our reality is, the more necessarily it escapes into dream and becomes a habitual dream. In addition, pursuing both dream and death by thinking of dream as reality, and vice versa, a poet finally despairs of his reality when he recovers from his dream, extremely revealing out tragic emotions such as the unstability of life and the painfulness and shabbiness of reality.