PERFORMING ANCIENT RELICS AS AN EVOCATION OF SPIRITUAL AND ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS IN ALLEN GINSBERG'S 'PLUTONIAN ODE' AND GARY SNYDER'S 'LOGGING 12' 'LOGGING 14'

摘要

The Beat Generation stands as a "subterranean" group of writers in the United States in the postwar era who engaged themselves with a spiritual vision countering against individual's material engrossment. They express their "underground" literary activism through jazz and Buddhist poetics that signify ecological views. Furthermore, their non-conformism to materialism reveals their spiritual views as Beat vision. This embodies the insight into the nature of phenomena, the interdependent relation between any form of life, and the evocation to conserve ecological resilience. Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder are two Beat poets from the East and West Coast America who communicate their ecological views through the interrelatedness between one's spiritual and material entities. This Beat insight evokes individuals to control their penchant for extravagant material goods since this overconsumption would only wreak havoc on the natural environment. Ginsberg and Snyder's poetics of mythologizing plutonium and forest accordingly encourage anyone to respect any form of life in one's reliance on goods to fulfill his/her daily necessities.