조지훈의 생태시학과 자아실현

Abstract

This study examines the ecological poetics of Cho Jee-hoon(조지훈) focusing on the Self-realization. The poetics of Cho Jee-hoon is regarded as one of the high peaks of the Buddhitic poetics, as those of Han Yong-woon(한용운) and Seo Jung-joo(서정주). “Love” in the poetic theory of Cho, is eco-ethical and aesthetic concept based on the deep ecology. Cho thought that the poet, the poetry and the nature are connected to “the ultimate life”(唯一生命). This theory shows us the post-modern vision, because it overcomes the modern aesthetics by connecting the art and the nature. In the early poerty, Cho defines the modern man as the isolated existence. And he tries to realize the Self in the nature over the barrier of the modern world. This imagination leads to the ecological poetics. In the ecological poetics of Cho, the Self-realization is accomplished by the imagination of yonkiron(緣起論), yunwhoiron(輪廻論). The self becomes the Self connected to “the ultimate life” of the nature by the Self-realization.