The Evolution of Eco-Poetics: A Journey from ...

The Evolution of Eco-Poetics: A Journey from Romantic Poetry to Contemporary Ecological Educational Poetry- Exploring Impacts for Spreading Awareness

Author Name : Somparna Bose

ABSTRACT

The ecocentric perspective contributes to redefining an interdisciplinary imagination with human and elemental interaction. Scholars like Evernden believe, “there is no such thing as an individual – only an individual-in-context, individual as a component of place, defined by place.”  The individual here must be dealt with as a component of the environment. Walt Whitman inaugurated the global vision that he would always thereafter identify with technological progress like the Industrial Surge which led to the political reactions we know as the environmentalist movement. Whitman’s imagination of a world brought closer “Passage to India” is a hymn for the global tribe, and ethnicity explains the origin of primal thought, the path between real nature and the nature of the soul. His understanding of Oriental mystics assimilated, allows a comparative idea of Orient and Occident philosophy. The journey of ecopoetry from human-nature interaction to human-nature susceptibility from a comparative perspective is understood from the expression of Indian poetics. Kalidasa was an ancient Indian poet who empathically drew human-nature relations. His use of season to portray human emotions and how animal instincts are a part of human behaviour by referring was ahead of his time. In the modern age environmental concern in poetics. In the context of landslides and flooding of Kerala Sugatha Kumari studies the reactivity between ecology and human society and the reflection of the dominant development on the longevity of the preserved environment. This comparative study of ecopoetry of American and Indian authors on the evolution will help identify and distinguish Indian ecocentric literature from the Western ecocentric canon through the different phases of the journey of ecocentric poetry in India and the West.

Keywords: interdisciplinary imagination, industrial surge, technological progress, Orient and Occident Philosophy, ecocentric literature