현대시의 근대 극복 대안으로서 불교적 세계관

Abstract

This study focuses on Buddhistic view of the world as an alternative for overcoming the modern times, being focused on poems of Jung, Hyungjong, Choi, Sungho and Lee, Eunbong. Buddhistic view of the world is the basic element which provides the poets with poetic imagination. Especially the Buddhistic view of the world is recognized as an alternative paradigm to western instrumental value of the nature and human value. In this context, the pursuit of the aesthetic in respect of Buddhistic view of the world has meaning as alternative reasons for the modern order . The poem of Jung, Hyungjong aims at monistic view of the world. His poem understand the human and the nature in the reciprocal relationship for the mutual survival. Based on his recognition of the world like this, he realizes life poetics. At the base of his life poetics,there, the critical recognition about the human reasons and the negativity of the civilization, are flowing. His poems are to overcome the modern order that causes threats to lives and suggest, as an alternative, the view of life based on mutual survival. Poems of Choi, Seungho assumes the strategical attitude regarding the destruction and the damage to the internal relation between egos and the world. His imagination has the power of spiritual status of quo in order to break the reality and the life. Poems of Choi, Seungho,through Buddhistic imagination, conduct the reflectional introspection about disillusionment and emptiness in the hidden side of modern civilization. In that sense, Poems of Choi, Seungho can be understood in the dimension of the history of civilization where the alternatives to overcoming the modern times are seek. Poems of Lee, Eunbong hold fast to the ethics which looks all the existences equally in the negative realities of fetishism. Buddhistic view of the world, shown by the poet, can be understood as the process for searching the alternatives to overcome the contradictions and the absurdities of the modern times. He tries to overcome the schizoid symptoms of the modern times through the recovery of the interdependent relation between ‘self and other’, between ‘subject and object’and between‘ human and the world’.