龜峰 宋翼弼과 無情의 시학

Ikpil Song and his Poetry

Emotion(情) is the most important motive to make poetry. It is a mental state of being driven from outer things or occurrences, and poet is a person who reacts more sensitive than any other. Ikpil Song(宋翼弼, 1534-1599), subject character of this study, wrote many famous poems using emotion and it's changed meanings. No emotion(無情) is a core diction in his anthology Gobong-jip(龜峰集). In the Eastern Asian cultural tradition, some scholars such as Taoists and Neo-Confucians thought that some kinds of the emotion was harmful for establishing the correct cognition of nature. In addition, he used the word in the way of emerging his own will, which tended to overcome the status and political pressures given by the temporary contradictions. In his poetry, the thougt of no emotion comes to naturally the state of no mind(無心), which is the essential dogma of Buddhism. Eventually, the two principal concepts go to dialectical unity, because the will to no emotion is come from much emotion(多情) with the natural things such as the moon and clouds. (Dong-A University)