최해 한시의 사대부 의식 연구

A Study on the consciousness of newly emerging illustrious officials in the poetry of Choi Hae

Jolong(1287~1340) was one of the most outstanding intellectuals in the later Koryo Dynasty. Jolong, a representative person of newly emerging illustrious officials in the later Koryo Dynasty, had high ideals to recover royal authorities of the Koryo Dynasty, which had been weakened. However, he remained in the periphery of power through his life. He expressed the critique of the present society and an ideal world, of which he dreamed everyday, in his poetry. Social contradictions and absurdities have been directly shown in his poetry without roundabout. His poetry was not a measure to deliver beauty to a reader, but was an intellectual practice to exposure a contradiction and absurdity in the society and to reconstruct a healthy society. Therefore, his struggling for reforming the absurd society, instead of a sophisticated style and rhetoric, is dominant in his poetry. There are roughly three characteristics of his social consciousness in the poetry: firstly, a strong critique of society as a practical intellectual living in troublous times, secondly, a spirit pursuing confucius-mencius thoughts as newly emerging illustrious officials learning Neo-Confucianism, and thirdly, a sense of compassion for the people of the lower classes.