Reading Response to Nature Poem by Tommy Pico

Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 2013

In recent decades a growing concern for the environment and humans’ relationship to it has prompted a group of literary critics, who have since been labelled ecocritics, to foreground place in literature as a new critical category. All ecological criticism shares the fundamental premise that human culture is connected to the physical world, affecting it and affected by it. Ecocriticism takes as its subject the interconnections between nature and culture, specifically the cultural artefacts of language and literature. This study attempts to make a case for Thumboo as an ecological poet. It discusses why Thumboo’s treatment of the historical theme is distinctive, subversive, and even at times anathematic to progress-oriented national discourses. It will then examine ways in which his poems forge an “organic” synthesis with nature and conclude by discussing Thumboo’s eco-critical leanings.

ASAP/Journal, 2022

W hen TOMMY PICO, a queer poet from the Viejas Reservation of the Kumeyaay Nation in Southern California, won the 2018 Whiting Award for poetry, the selection committee praised the "inventiveness" of his "contemporary epics." Framing PICO'S booklength poems through a Western genre, the judges describe PICO'S work as a "forceful. .. interrogation of myth and cultural expectations and self " that is novel for connecting sexual exploration to histories of Indigenous dispossession.

International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, 2022

The main goal of this article is to look into the relationship between nature and man as it is portrayed in the poetry of Derek Walcott and Kaiser Haq, two renowned poets from two distinct realms, namely St. Lucia and Bangladesh, respectively. Taking into consideration the rising level of environmental awareness, both poets have attempted to produce poetry that integrates man with nature. The poetry, particularly nature poetry, of these poets is explored in order to undertake study from an individual viewpoint, but there has yet to be a major examination into a comparative technique by adopting an ecocritical approach. In this study, the researchers attempt to uncover the nature of poetry disguised inside the chosen poems of the legendary poets by examining the creative and aesthetic characteristics of their works. This study examines the interaction between man and the environment via the lens of an ecocritical approach in a comparative manner. In this research, one poem by Kaiser Haq, "Poor Man Eating," and one poem by Derek Walcott, "Map of the New World," are examined from the perspective of environmental awareness. By concentrating on these poems and using an ecocritical perspective, this study attempts to demonstrate how the poet is sensitive to nature and how people are concerned about the environment.

Poetry has long been employed as a vehicle for protest and, with environmental concerns developing on a daily basis, 'environmentally-conscious' guides to writing nature poetry (or 'ecopoetry') are increasing in number. Yet do these exercises proposed by educators raise responsibility, or merely recognition, of contemporary environmental issues? This paper seeks to answer this question by making a comparative study of the chief literary modes and poetic devices prescribed by these pedagogies -- such as protest, mimesis and metaphor. Employing key ecocritical texts to critique the theoretical intentions behind the guides, and contemporary nature poetry to illustrate their potential outcomes, this paper highlights the divergent vocabularies of environmental poetry and environmental policy.

Journal of English Language and Literature, 2022

Robert Frost is arguably the greatest American poet of 20 th Century and if there is any truth to Emerson's maxim "to be great is to be misunderstood," then definitely Robert Frost is great as he is one of the most misunderstood poets. Critics have hotly debated whether or not he is a Nature-poet. This paper intends to examine the claim of Frost being a Nature-poet with an ecocritical perspective. We will review The Tuft of Flowers to understand whether or not he can be called Nature-poet. Humans have been writing poems about Nature for centuries and Frost has also described hills, mountains, valleys, rivers, forests, woods, flowers, animals, seasons, and seasonal changes in his poems in a beautiful way, but does description of flora and fauna in the poem makes the poet a Nature-poet has been studied in this paper.

First Opinions Second Reactions, 2013

2013

KMC Journal

Deep ecological criticism emphasizes the biocentric approach to analyze the literary texts, whereas the anthropocentric approach is human-centric. Therefore, the major purpose of this study is to bring balance to the ecosystem between humans and nature by analyzing Thoreau’s poetry from a biocentric point of view. It relooks radically the relationship between humans and nature on deeper level because the extreme human-centric development has been inviting many ecological crises. Therefore, this paper critically discusses, analyzes, and interprets Henry David Thoreau’s selected poems from a deep ecological perspective to explore the deep ecological consciousness and interconnectedness between humans and nature. Deep ecology is a new perception against anthropocentric ideas, which proposes a new solution and visualizes the inexorable current ecological challenges. Thoreau is a transcendentalist poet, his poetry expresses the profound interconnectedness between humans and nature which ...

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling, 2017

Significance. The environment can elicit biological responses such as oxidative stress (OS) and inflammation as consequence of chemical, physical or psychological changes. As population studies are essential for establishing these environment-organism interactions, biomarkers of oxidative stress or inflammation are critical in formulating mechanistic hypotheses. Recent advances. By using examples of stress induced by various mechanisms, we focus on the biomarkers that have been used to assess oxidative stress and inflammation in these conditions. We discuss the difference between biomarkers that are the result of a chemical reaction (such as lipid peroxides or oxidized proteins that are a result of the reaction of molecules with reactive oxygen species, ROS) and those that represent the biological response to stress, such as the transcription factor NRF2 or inflammation and inflammatory cytokines. Critical issues. The high-throughput and holistic approaches to biomarker discovery used extensively in large-scale molecular epidemiological exposome are also discussed in the context of human exposure to environmental stressors. Future directions. We propose to consider the role of biomarkers as signs and distinguish between signs that are just indicators of biological processes and proxies that one can interact with and modify the disease process.