Ecology in William Carlos Williams's Poems

Abstract

This thesis entitled "Nature Centered Notion: Ecocritical Reading of Williams's Poems" is a ecocritical analysis of William Carlos Williams selected poems: “Queen Anne’s Lace," “Red Wheelbarrow,” “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,’’ "Paterson" and “Peace on Earth”. From the perspective of ecocritical studies with reference to the text, I have come up with a finding that Williams explores the relationship between nature and human life in his writings. It adopts the theory of ecocriticism and ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between literature and environment. It includes everything related to the human and non human elements i.e. hills, plants, trees, seas, animals, rock, soil etc. which are considered as a part of human world. Thus, the relationship between man and the environment are the most important concepts on the study of ecocriticism. Williams is a nature poet. His poems are based on beauty of nature and environment as well. Through his poems he suggests about the world wars that are worthless. For him nature is powerful and it gives solace to the human sufferings at the time of war. This paper presents that the preserving and conserving nature in the age of rapid progression on science and technology is important to get comfort in life, which is also the thematic perspective of Williams.