Nature in Crisis Ecohorror and the Anthropocene in Selected Poems by Seamus Heaney | ||
| مجلة کلية الآداب بالوادي الجديد | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 27 July 2025 | ||
| Document Type: بØوث علمية Ù…Øکمة | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mkwn.2025.389329.1535 | ||
| Author | ||
| شيماء جمال* | ||
| كلية الآداب جامعة الوادي الجديد | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study explores how the relationship between man and nature has changed ‎and how the Anthropogenic changes to the Earth’s climate, land, oceans and ‎biosphere are now so profound and so rapid by the action of humans. Since the ‎time man began to use tools, people have been changing Earth. This change has ‎been felt more strongly with the spread of modern technology. These ‎environmental changes are depicted in Seamus Heaney’s poetry. Heaney ‎attempts to find new ways of thinking about nature. Both the ecocritical ‎approach and the analytical one are employed for the analysis and interpretation ‎of the poems. Within the course of this study, some of Heaney’s poems are ‎analyzed. He often expresses his feeling of separation of the natural world. When ‎he observes nature’s cycles with the eyes of an adolescent, he ceased to be a ‎naturalist. His admiration and appreciation of nature died gradually throughout ‎his transformation from childhood to adolescence, and from innocence to ‎experience. He realizes the danger and massive force of nature; he becomes ‎certain of nature’s reaction to human actions; he can view the violence of nature ‎represented in tornadoes, volcanoes, floods, deadly viruses, and many other ‎disasters. Ultimately, the study concludes that Heaney’s poetry serves not only ‎as a reflection of environmental anxiety, but also as a subtle critique of ‎humanity’s disconnection from and disruption of the natural world in the ‎Anthropocene era. ‎ | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Anthropocene; Ecohorror; environmental change; ecosystem; Seamus Heaney | ||
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