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Understanding of ecofeminism and the method of poetry education Lee, Yun-seung This study points on the possibility of utilizing ecofeminism as a method of poetry education. For that purpose, this study subjected korean women’s poetry. The discussion about the women’s literature, including feminism, has been criticized, because it has been limited its focus only on traditional poetry education, and as a result it did not reveal the essence of women’s literature. Literature education needs to have an interest on educating general public beyond traditional university education system. Ecofeminism is a progressive theory that criticizes fundamentally inequality and oppression occuring in most of relations including ruling and subordination, man and woman, human and nature and responds practically. Ecofeminism is fundamentally sprit indwelling in men’s attitude on living and death. A study on the ecofeminism in the literature is, however, insufficient because of much misunderstanding on the matter of ecology and feminism. The education of women’s poetry which expresses feminine self awareness and experience as women shoud be conducted on the basis of recognizing and respect to the unique life women. Their poetry has the symbol of nature 에코페미니즘의 이해와 시교육 방법 연구․221 in plenty and the ecological ideology of life that all living things are very important each other equally. They pursues such primitive orderly world as divine nature. It appears that ecofeminism is one of the recursive instincts toward divine nature. They find the divinity of nature and the power of life, in addition to empathic on participating in ego as a small universe actively. Understanding ecofeminism poems aims at fundamentally recognizing the relation between human and nature. Like this, it is essential to renew the limitation of a traditional literary education by analyzing new types of text and attemping a new educational methodology.