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주디스 라이트(Judith Wright)의 시: 자연과 여성
Judith Wright`s Poetry: nature and women
정병화 ( Byeong Hwa Jeong )
세계문학비교연구 33권 203-236(34pages)
UCI I410-ECN-0102-2015-800-002095868

Judith Wright was much interested in the conservation of nature in Australia from as early as the 1950s. She regarded nature to be protected as it is. Ecofeminism developed in the 1970s with the conjunction of the second wave feminism and the rise of the modern environmental movement. Especially cultural ecofeminism emphasizes the identification between women and nature in terms of biology and women``s experience as carers and mothers. In this sense, ecofeminism can offer a good way to approach Judith Wright``s poems. In Judith Wright``s poems, nature is closely connected with the life of the human being as a resource of creation, care and recovery from sickness. Women take the role of creation and carer of children as mothers using "the world``s four elements: earth, water, air, and the fire of the sun" like "the tree holds four truths in one." In this sense, Wright tried to identify nature with women as a resource of life-force. For her, nature also showed a good example from which humankind should learn how to live and how to love. Wright tried to tell us the fact that when human beings can associate with nature, and live in nature, they can recover from unhealthy mental conditions like the old mad girl in her poem, "The Hawthorn Hedge". Also, nature helped an old man find freedom and identify himself with a natural piece, a stone, in her poem, "Two Old Men". When protection of nature and earth is one of the most important global issues, and the feminist movement develops womens`` rights continuously, reading Wright``s poems can offer the reasons why we should protect nature and women together through reevaluation of them as resources of creation of life. Judith Wright was one of the predecessors of conservation and feminism even though she declared that she had not been a feminist.

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