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Avian Imagery of the Universal and the Particular: A Comparative Study of Oh Se-young and Michael Longley’s Poetry

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doi:10.29324/jewcl.2025.12.74.23

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Changgyu Seong

Année déclarée

2025

Langue déclarée

en

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This comparative study examines the bird poetry of Korean poet Oh Se-young and Irish poet Michael Longley, revealing fundamental divergences in their representational strategies and philosophical orientations toward the non-human world. Through close readings of poems written between 1990 and 2020, the analysis demonstrates how Oh’s poetry employs avian imagery within a universalizing aesthetic framework rooted in East Asian philosophical traditions, particularly the Korean literary technique of takyeong, wherein natural objects serve as vehicles for moral instruction. In contrast, Longley’s work insists on radical particularity, treating birds as irreducible individuals whose concrete presence resists abstraction into symbolic systems. The study traces these differences across multiple thematic domains: responses to environmental destruction, relationships between collective and individual, temporal structures, and approaches to death and mourning. Oh’s birds function as emblematic figures conveying eternal truths about cosmic order, offering consolation through recognition of universal patterns. Longley’s birds emerge as specific beings inhabiting particular spatiotemporal contexts, demanding testimonial attention that refuses consolatory abstraction. These divergent poetics reflect not merely aesthetic preferences but distinct ethical stances toward ecological responsibility. While Oh’s universalizing approach risks instrumentalizing nature for pedagogical purposes, it offers powerful consolation through cosmic participation. Longley’s particularizing ethics generates urgent obligation through recognition of absolute loss, yet risks paralysis through overwhelming specificity. The study argues that contemporary eco-poetics must navigate between these positions, developing what might be termed strategic oscillation between scales of attention. This comparative analysis contributes to understanding how cultural worldviews manifest in poetic form and how different representational strategies articulate alternative responses to ecological crisis.

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OPENALEX

W7164044632

DOI

10.29324/jewcl.2025.12.74.23

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OpenAlex · Document 1 · Document 2

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.29324/jewcl.2025.12.74.23
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W7164044632

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