الفهرس 
An Overview of Contemporary English Eco-PoetryOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
 |  | from | 302 |  |  |
| | | from | 302 | | |
Abstract
This dissertation, which is a comparative study, looks at the idea of using environmental items, and representing natural features in contemporary English poetry through an ecocritical approach. It specially refers to the work of three present-day British poets to show how the three poets, Sarah Maguire (1957-2017), John Burnside (1955- ) and Paul Muldoon (1951- ) are similar or different in dealing with ecology. The study falls into four chapters, preceded by an introductory theoretical section in which the definition and evolution of ecoriticism are displayed, along with an overview of the ecological precursors in early, pre-modernist and modernist English poetry. The first presents a short survey of English ecopoetry in the postmodernist and recent times. The next three chapters comparatively highlight ecological aspects in various poems by Maguire, Burnside and Muldoon (e.g. geographical manifestations, plant representations, and animal imagery). The concluding part shows the points of affinity and difference in the nature work of the three contemporary poets. The three poets handle nature and ecology in their work, advocate environmentalism, use ecological symbolism, and employ natural emblems taken from their adjacent localities. The points of difference lie in these hypotheses: Sarah Maguire uses natural elements to discuss current political events in the international arena, and ecofeminist issues; John Burnside makes landscape and animal features stand for cosmic human behavior, and universal notions; Paul Muldoon employs the Irish countryside phenomena to help preserve his homeland national identity in face of the Anglo-American globalism.