Of Wastelands and Ecopoetics.
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https://doi.org/10.7336/academicus.2023.28.12Abstract
This article is an ecocritical study of three of T. S. Eliot’s most notable works:“The Waste Land”, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, and “The Hollow Men”. The poems are analyzed in detail and in relation with one another to highlight Eliot’s understanding of man’s relationship with nature through an elemental, ecomythical, and ecoreligious study. The article pursues a pattern in Eliot’s writing of a Man-Nature relationship as it focuses on the ways in which nature interacts with and influences man’s life, emotions, and faith.
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ecocriticism, Eliot, wasteland, Prufrock, hollow men, nature, poetry,Downloads
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Berry, Geoffrey. “An Ecomythic Reading of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land.” The Trumpeter 31, no. 1 (2015): 1-13.
Black, Elizabeth. Ecocritical Eliot, Academia.edu, Academia. https://www.academia.edu/6801255/Ecocritical_Eliot. Accessed 23 September 2021.
T. S. Eliot: Nature Poet, Academia.edu, Academia. https://www.academia.edu/36960238/T_S_Eliot_Nature_Poet_pdf. Accessed 23 September 2021.
Coupe, Laurence. Myth. Routledge, 2009.
Eliot, Thomas Stearns. The Hollow Men: 1925. Dartmouth College, 2005.
Iovan, Marţian. “Eco-Education: A Required Element of Public Policies for Sustainable Social and Economic Development.” Academicus International Scientific Journal, vol. 9, 2014, pp. 14-28., https://dx.medra.org/10.7336/academicus.2014.09.01
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Poetry 6.3 (1915): 130-135.
The Waste Land 1922. Grolier Club, 1964.
McIntire, Gabrielle. “The Wasteland as Ecocritique.” The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land (2015): 178-193.
Mridha, Shibaji. “The Water Ethic: An Elemental-Ecocritical Reading of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land.” 2020.
Nayar, Pramod K. Contemporary literary and cultural theory: From structuralism to ecocriticism. Pearson Education India, 2009.
Oppermann, Serpil, and Serenella Iovino. “Coda: Wandering Elements and Natures to Come.” (2015): 310-317.
Parashar, Archana. “Reverberations of environmental crisis and its relevance in managing sustainability: an ecocritical reading of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land.” Decision 42.2 (2015): 159-172.
Sirr, Peter. “A modernist poet in the making.” irishtimes.com, The Irish Times, 19 October 1996;
Verma, Archana, and Rajni Singh. “An Ecocritical Reading of TS Eliot: An Approach Towards Sustainable Development Czytając TS Eliota: ekokrytycznaanaliza z perspektywyzrównoważonegorozwoju.” Problemy Ekorozwoju 16.1 (2021): 45-49. 2021.
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