함민복 시의 생태의식과 정체성 연구

Abstract

I analyzed poet Ham Min-bok's advanced ecological consciousness and identity after the 1990s as the main subject of his poems. The poet was creating works that could be sympathized with even in the rapid change of the earth's ecosystem by grasping the aspect of nature along with the change of reality and paying attention to the mutual relationship between humans and nature. Above all, the poet can be evaluated as showing an advanced aspect of ecological poetry in that he induces readers to reflect on ecological problems as human problems while dealing with nature, humans, and social communities together. Ham Min-bok's poems show the aspects of ecological consciousness being realized in the following three aspects. First, the identification of the ecological self and the desire for ecological recovery are intensely revealed. While maintaining a critical view of capitalist civilization, the poet recognized himself as a member of the ecosystem and showed a conscious awakening to protect the ecosystem. Second, the attitude of awakening to the heuristic of fear and‘verticality’. The discovery of this fear starts from the necessity of suppressing selfish desires at the individual level as much as possible and pursuing the benefit and goodness of the community. Third, it shows the commonality with nature through the circulating nature image and the reason of life egalitarianism. The poet was wary of human supremacy through various encounters with nature and emphasized that softness is an important source to break through the crisis of the present age. Poet Ham Min-bok stared at my identity as a part of the global ecosystem and criticized the dichotomous opposition such as nature/ civilization, subject / object, and was still writing meaningful poetry in the 2020s.