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  • Published Online:
    June  2024
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    The IUP Journal of English Studies
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    Article
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    IJES090624
  • Author Name:
    Raimy George and Sunitha V
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    Arts and Humanities
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95Man-Nature Relationship in the Poetry of A K Ramanujan, Nissim Ezekiel and T Vasudeva Reddy Man-Nature Relationship in the Poetry of A K Ramanujan, Nissim Ezekiel and T Vasudeva Reddy
Abstract

Ecopoetics, a subgenre of the ecocritical movement, focuses on human beings’ impact on nonhuman world and various ecological concerns. It draws people’s attention to the deep link that exists between man and nature. Poets like A K Ramanujan, Nissim Ezekiel, and T Vasudeva Reddy have brought out the interrelationship between human and nonhuman realms in their own distinct way in their works. This paper analyzes selected works of the above- mentioned Indian poets to highlight the presence of various ecopoetic elements in the same.

Introduction

Nature has always remained one of the main aspects of poetic works, especially in John Keats. In his poem “On the Grasshopper and the Cricket,” he says, “The poetry of the earth is never dead.” 1 Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore also celebrated nature for its divine and ethereal element in his lines, “Trees are Earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”