도시생태와 시적 상상력

Abstract

Most moderns reside within urban area. The urban area today are expected to provide not only residential area but also the role of the nature. Breaking out of the previous concept of urban area, the movement to ecological area where moderns can commune with nature well proves it. This implies that the urban area is becoming a new medium which derives aesthetic value more than poetic material. It is true that the ecological imagination so far has been bounded in simple enlightenment or mysticismic ecological consciousness about the nature. Repetition of ecological discourse which has became nearly a slogan has a problem in that it results in negligence of ecological literature. Consequently, it drops down the aesthetic value of ecological discourse. To make the ecological literature walk together with real life, there should be a right understanding and interest in urban ecology first. Using the concept of urban ecology more flexibly, the necessity for the expansion of ecological discourse can be brought up. This study discussed the aspects of poetic imagination on the urban ecosystem. The aspects were defined in three key issues: criticism on urban environment and positive acceptation, the urban ecology as the cloned nature, the poetic internalization of artificial structure. First of all, the criticism and positive acceptance of urban environment focuses on the feeling of the moderns living in urban areas and the criticisms on ecological crisis. The urban ecosystem in this point isn t different from the primary concept of the nature. The features of urban area in poets eyes are concluded as the shallow ecological consciousness called crisis of ecosystem. However, in the foundation of such poetic recognition, there is an effort to secure positive view on urban ecosystem. Second, the urban ecosystem as the cloned nature tells that the moderns are enjoying artificial nature through parks and flowerpots in urban areas instead of the nature they couldn t possess privately so far. This implies the negativeness of urban ecosystem has converted into a positive recognition which remedies the natural functions. Besides, it proves that the urban ecosystem has became a new poetic material of ecological discourse. The term, cloned nature, in here indicates the flowerpots, small parks and kitchen gardens that we can easily find in urban areas. These clones natures could be considered as an urban mimesis which is two step far from the concept of primary nature, however, it has an important meaning in that it has performed the role of the nature very well. Lastly, the poetic internalization of urban structures means the urban ecosystem that has went through poetic creation process. Poetic creativeness of poets could be interpreted as a new paradigm of urban ecosystem by reflecting the feelings of nature on artificial structures. In the foundation of such poetic creativeness, there is an poetic willingness of poets to build an image of urban nature breaking out of the primary nature. This study reviewed and reinterpreted the problems of urban ecosystem which has neglected so far from the view of literal completeness and aesthetic value. The aspects of poetic realization of urban ecosystem discussed in this study has an importance in that it is a new consciousness of ecological discourse or urban ecosystem.