The purpose of this thesis is for extracting and distributing literal imagery about dance movements in poems written in Tang dynasty. As a result, literal imagery about dance movements were mostly extracted from blowing sleeves, slow and fast spinning movements, and various dancing movements. Furthermore, there are literary rhetorics of beautiful figures, faces, and slender waists of dancers. Adn dancing movements of Geon-Mu were described as dynamic and speediness; while as dancing movements belonged to Yeon-Mu were depicted as soft, lyrical, and elegant. Those descriptive words for dance in Tang dynasty’s poems were highly artistic language while it could be compare to the literal shaping of dance. This thesis analyzed literary phrases of dance movements in Tang dynasty’s poems; so that how the people appreciated substantive esthetics in music and dance, not for philosophy and pragmatic theory.

This study extracted the literary figuration of the Sleeve Dance (袖舞) from the literature collections of Joseon Dynasty, and explored its meaning and style. As a result, the study extracted not only ‘Jangsu (長袖)’ and ‘Chuisu (翠袖)’ with connotative meanings, but also ‘Bun (飜: Bunyeon 飜然: Yeombun 艶飜)’ and ‘Pyeonpyeon (翩翩)’ the specific descriptions for fluttering sleeves, and ‘Pasa (婆娑)’ the description for non-conventional dance. After exploring the meanings of their origins and exemplary standards, the study emphasized that ‘Jangsu’ should be considered not only the shape of a long sleeve but also a gorgeous sleeve dance of a beautiful dancer, and ‘Chuisu’ should be considered not only the color of a green sleeve but also an excellent sleeve dance of a pitiable dancer. The study also confirmed that ‘Bun’ was a general description for a fluttering sleeve, ‘Bunyeon’ was a description for a sleeve fluttering high enough to touch the sky and changing very quickly, ‘Yeombun’ was a complex description for the combination of a beautiful dancer and beautiful sleeve, ‘Pyeonpyeon’ was a description for a very thin and light silk sleeve fluttering like a butterfly, and ‘Pasa’ was a description for a sleeve movement which was more rough and non-conventional than an ordinary sleeve dance which generally moved light and swift. Those descriptions were confirmed to be based on the standards from the Classic of Poetry (詩經) and Tang Poetry (唐詩), and these phenomenons were confirmed to be the part of Classicism (擬古主義). This study has significance to bring ‘Sumu’ in the center of discussion for the first time in Korea