월트 휘트먼의 무의식과 자연
Walt Whitman’s Unconsciousness and Nature
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Walt Whitman celebrates and identifies with most things; nature is one of these. He experiences nature mostly through his unconsciousness, identified as his body and soul. Consciousness, for him, can be a hindrance to a true relationship with nature. The experience of unconsciousness is difficult to articulate, so he expresses it as feelings of health, good sensual, sexual, and physiological workings when he has bodily contact with nature and feelings of happiness, spiritual bliss when he has a mystical relationship with nature. Furthermore, he discovers the soul and God in nature. This relationship with nature is reminiscent of Martin Buber’s I-thou relationship, which ascertains God in both sides. Even though Whitman indicates that a genuine relationship needs God’s grace, he also mentions the desirable attitude and status of soul necessary for human beings to attain it. For him, the relationship requires that human beings be not only attentive and cautious but also good like God, meaning return to our original status, which leads us to innocent intuition and wisdom. For Whitman, poets are those who can realize this and explain the way between nature and human soul.
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Walt Whitman celebrates and identifies with most things; nature is one of these. He experiences nature mostly through his unconsciousness, identified as his body and soul. Consciousness, for him, can be a hindrance to a true relationship with nature. The experience of unconsciousness is difficult to articulate, so he expresses it as feelings of health, good sensual, sexual, and physiological workings when he has bodily contact with nature and feelings of happiness, spiritual bliss when he has a mystical relationship with nature. Furthermore, he discovers the soul and God in nature. This relationship with nature is reminiscent of Martin Buber’s I-thou relationship, which ascertains God in both sides. Even though Whitman indicates that a genuine relationship needs God’s grace, he also mentions the desirable attitude and status of soul necessary for human beings to attain it. For him, the relationship requires that human beings be not only attentive and cautious but also good like God, meaning return to our original status, which leads us to innocent intuition and wisdom. For Whitman, poets are those who can realize this and explain the way between nature and human soul.
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