Taeje Yu Bang Sun (柳方善, 1388-1443) is one of the representative
writers significantly affecting the literary world of the early years of the
Joseon Dynasty. However, the political collapse and the consequent
banishment forced him to be isolated-type, bureaucrat-literary man.
Given the facts, the purpose of this study is to identify how he
overcame the political ordeals from his poetic literature.
The life of Yu Bang Sun can be summarized as "failures of dream
toward the world and its subjugation," and the subjugation included the
internalization accompanied with resignation. In this context, sense of
Tae functioned as an important mechanism. It has two layers - a vision
of circular reasoning, or tranquility after poverty, and a vision of
fatalism, or a will of calmness on difficulty. This sense can be the
consequence of simultaneousness of a will to free himself from
banishment and a thought that acquired the banishment as destiny.
It may be not probable that his literary pedigree is simplified into
bureaucrat type by emphasizing the aspect of letting the legacy of
bureaucrat-literary men between Kwon Geun(權近) and Seo Geo Jeong
(徐居正), for he was completely isolated from it. In this process, the
Bang-oui literary tendency and the Sa-rim literary tendency are shown in
his works complicatedly to be a trait, a trait that can be noted as his
literary position in early years of the Joseon Dynasty.