The Romantic Character of Jo-Sik's poems
남명시의 낭만주의적 성격
1. Jo-Sik was a great Confucain scholar of the Lee Dynasty in 16th century. He didn't enter government service for all his life but devoted himself to his studies out of office. Although the king appointed him to provincial governor several times he refused to be an official. 2. He wrote about 200 poems. This paper aims to appreciate his poems as romanticism. He wrote poems in the base of a strong discontent with social phenomena of those days but he didn't describe the evil practices realistically. He only attempt to rise above the discontented reality. He was an idealist rather than a realist, which led him to write Romantic poems. 3. He loved the Mt. Jiri more than any other man. Mt. Jiri was described in his poems as a huge pillar supporting heaven. he had a desire to take after the Mt. Jiri. Mt. Jiri. was the objective correlative with his Romantic ideal.