최승호의 '고비(Gobi)'를 통해본 자연의 고비 = The Critical Point of Nature through Choi Seung Ho's 'Gobi'

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This paper aims to examine the eco-lyrical significance immanent in a change process of Choi Seung Ho's eco-lyrical writing about the distorted and devastated ecosystem of nature through his 'yellowish brown poems' in his poetry『Gobi』. His eye-sight toward the objects begins to be more flexible from late 1990s in contrast to that of former poems, and he shows the sublimated manner to put the relation between ego and object on the reciprocal one. He tries to destroy the anthropo-centric thinking paradigm, and dares to plan a new world according to natural aura in『Soft Book』(2000).
Choi seems to have possessed the affection for desert by nature in terms of 'desert poem’ like「A Loaf of Foam in Desert」or 「Yellow Sand」, and this poetic tendency toward the stuff 'desert' deepens more through the「Sandman」and「Sand Dune」, and his poetic vision toward the immanent meaning of desert especially in the Gobi Desert turns into more nature-friendly paradoxically through the 'fully empty fullness' and critical point of nature. The poetic selves in 'yellowish brown poems' perceive the non-existence in desert overcoming all the greed, conflict and absurdity in the secular and material-stricken world.
The poetic selves in the very paradoxical poetry『Gobi』have reached eventually the consciousness that humans don't have to live in desert but have to live like desert in order to come over the critical point of present nature being destroyed by capitalistic avarice and thoughtless exploitation.