Abstract
Judith Wright's (1915-2000) concern about man's disintegration with the natural world and the horror of the destruction of the earth reflects a high sense of ecological awareness caused by the threat of pollution that pervades the environment. Wright's ecopoetry draws attention to the danger of displacing oneself from the natural world that would also cause an inner alienation in man. The purpose of this paper is to explore Wright’s ecopoetical representation of the Australian ecology and its integral connection with Australia’s national unity. As the study examines Wright’s various volumes of poems, it argues that the lack of ecological awareness weakens the national and social fabric of Australia and deteriorates its environment. It also asserts that the poet’s ecopoetic quest for preserving the Australian ecology generates a new articulation of the Australian cultural identity and nationhood.
Highlights
The environmental crisis of modern times is highlighted in many of Wright‘s writings as we read in her essay "The Individual in a New Environmental Age" where she states that: that knowledge and concern about the 'environmental crisis' are beginning to spread more widely, the dispute areas of responsibility are beginning...Historically, only vital and sweeping change in public opinion and individual attitudes has changed or destroyed social institutions
Wright is conscious of the function of poetry as she says in Because I Was Invited: If our times have been kind to poetry, they have been unkind to what is its source, and the source of life and language—the living earth from which we have separated ourselves, but of which we are a part of and in which we cannot help participating. (vii)
It is worth saying that Wright‘s early experience with the Australian landscape in Armidale was quite distant from city life, and it nourished in her a beautiful image of her land
Summary
The environmental crisis of modern times is highlighted in many of Wright‘s writings as we read in her essay "The Individual in a New Environmental Age" where she states that: that knowledge and concern about the 'environmental crisis' are beginning to spread more widely, the dispute areas of responsibility are beginning...Historically, only vital and sweeping change in public opinion and individual attitudes has changed or destroyed social institutions. Wright acknowledges her belonging to Armidale that no longer exults in an ecological culture of kinshiplike relationship between man and the natural world.
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