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: بØÙˆØ« علمية Ù…ØÚ©Ù…Ø© | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/mkwn.2025.389329.1535 | ||||
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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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