Abstract
The serious ecological crises like air pollution, acid precipitation, global warming, deforestation, and loss of biodiversity have engulfed our planet earth. Ecocriticism became very much acclaimed critical approach in the 1980’s after Feminism and Post-colonialism, and developed, with attention from scholars of various fields, in different countries into a separate subject. In the application of Ecocriticism to the study of all forms of literary works it shows the ideas and thoughts that prove helpful in dealing with the relationshipbetween man and nature, and also contribute to the cause of environmental preservation.
Highlights
Poetry is an art of creation. The poet lives in an imaginary world and presents things as he/she imagines them and at times makes them more comprehensible, beautiful and creative than they can be seen by an ordinary person
Like other arts, poetry is an art of creation
Any coherent understanding of what language is and how language performs, that any coherent account of the capacity of human speech to communicate meaning and feeling is, in the final analysis, under- written by the assumption of God's presence ... the experience of aesthetic meaning in particular, that of literature, of the arts, of musical form, infers the necessary possibility of this "real presence." (Steiner, 3) This work will be a comparative textual analysis of the poetic works of Agha Shahid Ali and Sylvia Plath with the focus on the assertion of ecological concerns and their projection
Summary
Poetry is an art of creation. The poet lives in an imaginary world and presents things as he/she imagines them and at times makes them more comprehensible, beautiful and creative than they can be seen by an ordinary person. The experience of aesthetic meaning in particular, that of literature, of the arts, of musical form, infers the necessary possibility of this "real presence." (Steiner, 3) This work will be a comparative textual analysis of the poetic works of Agha Shahid Ali and Sylvia Plath with the focus on the assertion of ecological concerns and their projection.
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