김종길 시론 연구 ―유기론적 세계관을 중심으로

Abstract

Organic view is the original form of human thinking that sought to pursue higher humanity based on the recognition of the relationship with nature. In organic theory, nature is a process of constant creation, and humans are perceived as equal creations participating in this process. Nature and humans become two and one, and the whole life is accepted as harmonizing and negotiating with each other. In literature, organic theory is a perspective that sees literary works as an independent entity like an organism, and it can be said to be a frame to explain the process, form, value, and history of literature. The organic view that ‘New-Criticism’ constitutes a completed life in the process of integrating the part as an element into the whole is inherited and developed. Kim Jong-Gil is an English-American literary scholar who has grown up in the Confucian tradition and has an academic basis for ‘New-Criticism’, so it is difficult to clarify where his organic view is based. However, since the time to accept the critical premise and standard of ‘New-Criticism’ and the time to establish a new poem while criticizing its difficulties appears as the difference between the first and the second poetic collection, it is inductively more dominant organic theory. In this article, I reviewed the aspect of Kim Jong-gilmaterializing his organic theory into poetics and the process of building his own worldview.