인간-동물의 관계론적 사유와 시적 감수성 - 2010년대 한국시를 중심으로

With the recent brisk discussion of animal discourse and animal rights, ontology and relationalism of animal are attracting attention in literature as new themes. This new paper explores new ethics by dismantling and reconstructing human-animal interactions and the dominant relationships surrounding them from a human-animal relational perspective, and analyzes how this poetic sensitivity appears in modern Korean Poetry in the 2010s. In "Animal Poems" so far, if animals appeared mainly as subjects or were used as metaphors or symbols representing the inner side of poetic subjects, this article noted animal poems showing ecological thinking and socio-cultural approaches based on new epistemologies of human-animal relations. In particular, the relationship between humans and animals in Korean Poetry in the 2010s was analyzed through themes such as the symbolism of the zoo, the animalization of humans and the humanization of animals, the end of meat eating, vegetarian sensibility, and living with pets. Poets that illustrate this theme are Kang Seong-eun, Lee Geun-hwa, Lee Jang-wook, Lee Ki-sung, Kim Sun-oh, Yoo Gye-young, Park Se-mi, Park Si-ha, Song Seung-eon, and Jeong Da-yeon. And two collections of poems about the experiences of poets living with their pets, Thank for Having a Dog and Your Cat Would Be Sweet have been published. These portents and trends of Korean Poetry in the 2010s show deep communion and ecological sensitivity to animals, and call for awakening and implementing not only for companion animals but also for global environmental issues.