Abstract

ECOPRAXICALITY OF KUNITZIAN TEXT: ECOCONSCIOUSNESS DEVELOPMENT IN STANLEY KUNITZ’S SELECTED POEMS

Nidhal Muneam Mohammed, Prof. Saad Najim Al-Khafaji (PhD)

Volume: 10 Issue: 1 2020

Abstract:

By adopting ecocritical approach, this study aims at examining the neologism ecopraxis applicability to Stanley Kunitz’s text in an attemptto investigate the poet’s ecoconsciousness development. Ecocritically, this paper will try to explicate the environmental issues Kunitz’s poetry implicates measuring his awareness extent of Man’s devastating, unsustainable activities that threaten the planet balance and concluding whether his text proposes a sort of solution to encounter such problems, concerning both flora and fauna, that, in turn, proves his text’s ecopraxicality.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v10i01.014

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