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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Main Authors: Goltaj David Khosravi, Ravichandran Vengadasamy, Raihanah M. M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11641/
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author Goltaj David Khosravi,
Ravichandran Vengadasamy,
Raihanah M. M.,
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Ravichandran Vengadasamy,
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description 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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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:116412018-05-06T14:04:04Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11641/ Ecoethical significance of wilderness in Pablo Neruda’s selected poems Goltaj David Khosravi, Ravichandran Vengadasamy, Raihanah M. M., 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. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11641/1/15976-57783-1-PB.pdf Goltaj David Khosravi, and Ravichandran Vengadasamy, and Raihanah M. M., (2017) Ecoethical significance of wilderness in Pablo Neruda’s selected poems. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 17 (3). pp. 55-69. ISSN 1675-8021 http://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/999
spellingShingle Goltaj David Khosravi,
Ravichandran Vengadasamy,
Raihanah M. M.,
Ecoethical significance of wilderness in Pablo Neruda’s selected poems
title Ecoethical significance of wilderness in Pablo Neruda’s selected poems
title_full Ecoethical significance of wilderness in Pablo Neruda’s selected poems
title_fullStr Ecoethical significance of wilderness in Pablo Neruda’s selected poems
title_full_unstemmed Ecoethical significance of wilderness in Pablo Neruda’s selected poems
title_short Ecoethical significance of wilderness in Pablo Neruda’s selected poems
title_sort ecoethical significance of wilderness in pablo neruda’s selected poems
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11641/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11641/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11641/1/15976-57783-1-PB.pdf