| 초록 |
This paper attempts to analyze the ecological vision through a close reading of two poets, Gary Snyder and Jung Hyun-Jong. The rapid destruction and contamination of our environment is not an incidental byproduct of highly developed techno-industrial society. Instead the human civilization as a whole is the cause of the problem. This life-threatening ecological problem is basically a problem of a human mind, which can be solved only through a reformation of value systems and a revolution of human attitude. This solution to the ecological problem, we characterized it as the 'Ecology of Mind'. The Ecology of Mind is a basic ecological vision in which the social, political, and ethical programs originate and interact. Like other ecological writers and critics, Snyder believes that degradation of nature has been repeated in the conspiracy of religious, economic, and political forces of human civilization from ancient times up to the present. According to Snyder, human alienation from nature and its process means the loss of what he calls original mind and disintegration of consciousness which existed integrally in the mind. As a spiritual deep ecologist, Snyder exhorts himself and others to reach the new frame of mind with deep ecological consciousness and spiritual practices. To overcome the problem, Snyder stresses the restauration of the 'wilderness'. For Jung Hyun-Jong, the most fundamental solution to the ecological problem is to create poetic 'relation' between poet's mind and the nature. The moving force behind this relationship is the poetic imagination, in other words, what we call an 'ecological eros'. The poet's ecological vision culminates in his vision in which 'the poem 'breathes' our soul and we 'breathe' the poem'. |
