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Im Kyŏng on
Hyŏnho’s Trivial Tales (Compendium of Remarks on Poetry)
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申企齋光漢。以詩名世。尤工七絕。甞過金參判世弼舊居。感作一絕曰。當時逐客幾人存。立馬東風獨斷魂。烟雨介山寒食路。不堪聞笛夕陽村。寄送成遯齋世昌。要和。遯齋以為。詩固淸絕。而其用介山為料者。特因寒食而寓言爾。豈眞有此等山名耶。試走一蒼頭探訪。則果有所謂介峴者。距金居百弓地。遯齋擊節曰。是果不可及矣。停不和。蓋詩家引事。雖非上乘。而精襯如申詩者。未易得也。遯齋稱賞。宜矣
Sin Kwanghan became famous throughout the world for his poetry, and he was especially skillful (kong) in seven-character quatrains. Once when he passed by Minister Kim Sep’il’s old residence, feeling moved, he wrote a quatrain. 當時逐客幾人存立馬東風獨斷魂煙雨介山寒食路不堪聞笛夕陽村 Of those who were then exiled, how many now remain?Halting the horse in the east wind, my heart breaks alone. At the misty and rainy Kae Mountain, traveling on the Day of the Cold Food,I cannot bear the sound of flute coming from the sunset village. He sent the poem to Sŏng Sech’ang and asked him to write a matching poem. Sŏng thought, “The poem is surely clear and excellent (ch’ŏngjŏl). He used Kae Mountain as the topic to speak allegorically about consuming cold food. But is there really such a mountain?” Sŏng sent a servant to inquire, and indeed there was a mountain named Kaehyŏn about a five-hundred-foot distance from Kim’s old residence. Sŏng slapped his lap and said, “This truly is something that I cannot reach.” Then he stopped attempting to match the poem. It is perhaps because although a poet’s use analogy is not the most superior quality, to use it in such refined and intimate (chŏngch’in) fashion as in Sin’s poem is not something that can be easily attained. Sŏng’s praise of Sin’s poem is appropriate.
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