Based on the premise that how to create traditional gardens has something to do with Poetry writing, this paper concludes with the following two points. First, considering the way the gentry in the Joseon Era appreciated art, we realize that theories ...
Based on the premise that how to create traditional gardens has something to do with Poetry writing, this paper concludes with the following two points. First, considering the way the gentry in the Joseon Era appreciated art, we realize that theories of making traditional gardens relate to the way of writing poems and drawing pictures. The way of writing poems can be construed as the way of making traditional gardens, especially in regards to the forty eight poems of Soshaewon. The research, of course, will be in better shape later when it can come up with similar results from other examples. Second, the features of the forty eight poems of Soshaewon--an antithetic structure, alternations of four beautiful seasons, combination of real scenery and fictitious scenery, union of form and action, and a technique that lets little things symbolize bigger entities--seem to reflect how to create traditional gardens. The way of writing poems alone, however, is not really able to represent the whole theories of making traditional gardens. While poetry writing is only connected with the space structure (how to make gardens), the features in a larger scope of the theories--picking out a site, dividing land, arranging, etc--will relate more to drawing pictures than to writing poems.