나타난 환경인문학적 함의

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to figure out the implications of T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Dry Salvages’ from the perspective of the environmental humanities. They urge ethical human action in the Anthropocene recognizing the relationship between the human and non-human world in a nonanthropocentric manners, and alleviating the terror that humans feel in the process. The Anthropocene environmental problems, that natural restoration is difficult to expect, demands that we relate to the non-human world in an ethical way. The studies of environmental humanities focus on various public engagements of non-human worlds. This research will provide a new direction for the public to reflect on and practice ethical actions in the Anthropocene with Eliot’s ‘The Dry Salvages.’ First of all, it captures Eliot’s perception of the non-human world beyond human consciousness and human fear based on Object-Oriented Ontology in this work. Next, it draws the meaning of natality, the hope behind death, and the method of psychological solidarity with suffering people into ways to encourage human action from this poem. In terms of the environmental psychology, it argues that the environmental humanities’ implications of this work are to encourage human ethical actions with a non-anthropocentric awareness of the non-human world and a way to alleviate the fear that humans feel in uncertainty.