김기택 시에 나타난 육식의 윤리와 아이러니

Abstract

In these days, meat diet is problematic issues in terms of health, environmental and ethical issues. Poets in Korea focus the meat diet issue as a life-threatening problem (bioethics), the topics they are interested in is how to deal with the ethical pressure after eating living animals. The poet, Kim, Ki-Taik, criticizes unethical human behaviors for eating meats. Once people consider animals just for a menu, we make ourselves light of the life, which might make feeling of guilty. Continuously, that feeling might link with the negative logics about meat diets. However, Kim, Ki-Taik does not go to that negative logic but he also agrees we as a human instinctually want meats. Ironically, his poetry point out the meat diet’s unethical aspects which cause a sense of guilty but people as a human have no choice but to accept the fact that people eat meats. Thus, Kim, Ki-Taik claims that these ironies are the same as human’s proof of guilt. He also insists that it is inappropriate for human to take the evidence of crime, even though human natural is fundamentally evil, he believes. He tries to interpret the irony of meat diet metaphysically, to understand the reconciliation between life and death.