자연의 재신화화와 탈신화화 - 한국 현대시의 유토피아와 반(反)유토피아 상상력

Remythologization and Demythologization of Nature - Utopian and Anti-Utopian Imagination of Korean Modern Poetry -

&nbsp;&nbsp;Nature is given absolute weight on lyric poetry. Nature in lyric poetry has traditionally functioned as one of objects stirring up poetic imagination. Nature is superior in the material aspect in acquiring the prototype disposition of lyricism. Nature from ancient songs to modern poetry is important objective correlative revealing the poetic inspiration of poets. Nature represents prototype, universality, and the immediacy of experiences, and it functions extensively in experiences and consciousness of the creative subject.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The poetic ego loses identity in the limping fetters of modern history, and nature is so different from what it once was. Nature has been damaged by civilization and the purity of it has been polluted. During that, there are two methods that poets losing identity can choose. One method is to restore the world of nature into the original form. This is connected with Utopian desire about the golden age of modern people that try to free themselves from the realty full of absurd and inconsistent, modern time into broken pieces, and urban civilization space.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The other method is to demythologize nature, not remythologize it. Demythologization of nature is that a mirror reflects the desire and half a lifetime of human beings by revealing with tension the actual circumstances of damage and destruction of a primitive aboriginal territory. They noticed tension relations between nature and civilization, not idealizing and remythologizing nature into the Utopian view of the world, and from there they try to look into anti-Utopian world of some predictable aspects.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;These two aspects include the facts that the life of us is placed in an ecological crisis, and that human beings and nature and ego and world should be restored into true relations again. Here include hopes and dreams about more desirable life and Utopian desire on ideal and positive social aspects.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;This study is to research what aspects ‘remythologization of nature’ and ‘demythologization of nature’ are expressed. Especially, this study is to abstract the mean, which remythologization and demythologization of nature against mythologization of civilization have, from the view of Utopia.