Nature in Crisis Ecohorror and the Anthropocene in Selected Poems by ‎Seamus Heaney

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doi:10.21608/mkwn.2024.444279

Nature in Crisis Ecohorror and the Anthropocene in Selected Poems by ‎Seamus Heaney

نوع المستند : بحوث علمية محکمة

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د/ شيماء جمال

مدرس بقسم اللغة الإنجليزية كلية الآداب جامعة الوادي الجديد

10.21608/mkwn.2024.444279

المستخلص

This study explores how the relationship between man and nature has changed and how the Anthropogenic changes to the Earth’s climate, land, oceans and biosphere are now so profound and so rapid by the action of humans. Since the time man began to use tools, people have been changing Earth. This change has been felt more strongly with the spread of modern technology. These environmental changes are depicted in Seamus Heaney’s poetry. Heaney attempts to find new ways of thinking about nature. Both the ecocritical approach and the analytical one are employed for the analysis and interpretation of the poems. Within the course of this study, some of Heaney’s poems are analyzed. He often expresses his feeling of separation of the natural world. When he observes nature’s cycles with the eyes of an adolescent, he ceased to be a naturalist. His admiration and appreciation of nature died gradually throughout his transformation from childhood to adolescence, and from innocence to experience. He realizes the danger and massive force of nature; he becomes certain of nature’s reaction to human actions; he can view the violence of nature represented in tornadoes, volcanoes, floods, deadly viruses, and many other disasters. Ultimately, the study concludes that Heaney’s poetry serves not only as a reflection of environmental anxiety, but also as a subtle critique of humanity’s disconnection from and disruption of the natural world in the Anthropocene era.

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