김지하의 ‘애린’과 ‘모심’의 시학 : 불교생태론적 관점을 중심으로

Abstract

The root causes of ecological crisis that the world is facing are anthropocentricism and extremism cited by eco-philosopher Arne Naess and social ecologist Rudolf Bahro respectively. No wonder human desire is at the core of the crisis. In the situation, it is necessary to envisage and accept the limitation of human desire and nature to attempt 'ecological transformation of human desire'. That is where Buddhist ecology recalls religion, philosophy and ecology. An abstinence constitutes a core of Buddhist ecology. Thus, Buddhist ecology focuses on developing ways of inducing propositions, such as 'How can it freely moderate human desire' and 'How will it promote coexistence between civilization and the nature.'Kim, Ji-Ha (1941 ～ ) is renowned as a poet who embraced continued political and social change of the country while showing keen interest in the reality. His poetic journey may be summarized as incessant pursue for value of livings. Therefore the reasons he reflected in his poems for livings are summed up as "Ae-Rin" and "Defication", which added another depth to his poem Ae-Rin(which symbolizes revived affinity for living things) published in the 1980s. In his poem, following to the "Eot"(nominalized form of mis-matching), "White Shadow" gets molded. It gets substantialized into multi-faced reality as "Ae-Rin", criticizing and reporting the reality of the life-world get distorted and contaminated by human desire. His poetic journey finally ends with 'deification', the most important ethical code essentially pursued by the poet in his poetic journey. Deification may be expressed as mutual respect or compassion that Buddhist ecology considers essential value. Deep respect for every living things in the world is a core value pursued by Buddhist ecology. Poet “Kim Ji-Ha” recognized importance of valuing living things amid rapid political and societal change in the country and realized that "Ae-Rin” or “revived affinity for living things” alone was never possible to change the world regarding taking life as part of ordinary life. His belief and those realization lead him to create "deification" as an important practical-ethical value. That is because his Buddhist ecological philosophy is at the heart of his poetic image.