Ecoethical significance of wilderness in Pablo Neruda’s selected poems
This paper explores the ecoethical vision and ecological awareness in the selected poems of Pablo Neruda, a Nobel Prize winning poet of Latin American descent who was well known as a political poet. The structural and thematic analysis of the study will focus on the concept of ‘Ethics’ as one of...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2017
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11641/1/15976-57783-1-PB.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11641/ http://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/999 |
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| Summary: | This paper explores the ecoethical vision and ecological awareness in the selected poems of
Pablo Neruda, a Nobel Prize winning poet of Latin American descent who was well known
as a political poet. The structural and thematic analysis of the study will focus on the concept
of ‘Ethics’ as one of the components of ecopoetry, which is the new brand of nature poetry
and one of the components of ecocriticism which investigates the human-nature relationship.
The objective of this paper is to highlight the significance of ecoethical consideration of
Pablo Neruda towards wilderness. The study utilizes the theoretical frameworks of
ecocriticism and ecopoetry to illuminate Neruda’s call for reverence of the wilderness, flora
and fauna, in the land, the sea and the sky through an ethical consideration of
interdependence and interconnectedness of human and nonhuman. This paper problematizes
Neruda’s attitude towards nature to obtain new insights into his ethical stand towards the
natural world. The discussion focuses on the poems which reflect the sense of ethics and
represent the significant role of humility in shaping our sense of accountability towards the
wilderness, while revealing Neruda’s ideology and relationship with the non-human world. |
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