AN ECOCRITICAL READING OF GARY SNYDER’S SELECT POETRY
Keywords:
ecology, nature, interdependence, ecopoetryAbstract
Born in 1930, Gary Snyder’s earliest years witnessed a sharp decline in idealistic thought as a result of the dominance of modernist movements. The present article deals with Snyder’s idealistic vision of the relationship between human beings and the natural world. It investigates the ecological implications in his major poetic works, Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems (1959), Turtle Island (1974) and Mountains and Rivers without End (1996). I will read those works from an ecological point of view to draw the attention of the readers to the significance of the environmental concerns embodied in the poetic works of Gary Snyder.
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