A study on female characters extracted from classical poetry

This study is an attempt to extract various female characters through the women's desires projected in the text and the attitude and appearance of dealing with them, targeting classical Korean poetry. Assuming that a given poetic situation is an important key event, the central speaker who reveals his voice within it is naturally the protagonist of the poetic situation, and the emotions revealed by the poetic speaker due to unresolved problems directly express the character's conflict situation. It can be seen as Above all, the answer becomes clear when poetry approaches the most important basis for extracting character from literature from the perspective of human ‘desire and deficiency.’ The common and core quality that makes a character a protagonist is ‘intense desire.’ The will and psychology of a character who wants and desires something earns sympathy from those who enjoy it. This is because it depicts real people suffering from serious mental anguish or difficulties, and it also has universal validity that any human being can sympathize with, outside the limited scope of a certain ‘genre’. So far, discussions on the shape of female characters have been conducted from various angles, and some results have been achieved accordingly. However, it is certainly meaningful to extract characters from a poetry genre rather than a story. Here, among classical poets, works that can be confirmed as female speakers are selected, using Goryeo folk songs, gisaeng sijo, saseol sijo, and Gyubang gasa as the main texts. Although there are a large number of works, here, only two representative works with prominent characters from each genre were selected for discussion. Therefore, in this paper, the poetic situation revealed in the poem is assumed to be an important central event, a core event, and the poetic speaker is set as the main character of the event, and the task of exploring what kind of person he is through the process of processing the character's desires and deficiencies It was. In the process, we focused on and analyzed the language, psychology, and actions expressed in the poetry to extract unique characters from each work.