고려대학교

초록/요약

The purpose of this study was to investigate the traditional ecological consciousness in the poems of Jeong Ji-yong and Baek Seok, who lived in the 1930s between pre-modern and modern times, through mythical views of the world. In his poems, Jeong Ji-yong depicts situations far from the mythical worlds as the traditional lifestyles, the community-oriented lifestyles, are destroyed and fragmented. By expressing the collective longing and nostalgia for the traditional spaces in indirect techniques, in particular, he clearly presents the contemporary individuals' perception of the modern, colonial civilization and effectively delivers the derived sad emotions. It’s also demonstrated that he describes an affluent and whole totality by granting life to natural beings or objects other than humans and making them assist humans or do certain activities with them. Such a perception proves that he wrote his poems based on animistic thinking, which is the foundation of ecological consciousness. In contrast to the indirect narration of Jeong who identified the problems with the modern civilization and chose nature as the alternative to it, Baek Seok describes the mythical worlds from the past in such beautiful ways and his current conditions in indirect methods of expression. He shows that all beings are equal or superior to humans by introducing such natural beings, animals and plants and even gods that have the same power as humans or sometimes are in a superior position to humans. His animistic imagination is based on the ecological consciousness of believing in one common loop for the order of nature instead of different areas for different orders of nature. In order for ecologism to serve as a complete artistic value, they should search for diverse aesthetic characteristics of ecologism in modern literature and prove them. Only when those tasks are done, ecologism will be able to function as a criterion for writing the entire history of poetic literature. Thus it’s required to minutely and thoroughly analyze the works of various modern poets and look for aesthetics of ecologistic imagination in them.