Ecological Awareness in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Poems

Abstract

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poems reflect of ecological awareness and the inter connection between human beings and nature. Too many ecologists have tried to identify plant communities and ecosystems merely by getting out of doors and having a look around. They have seen the forest in term of minority of its trees. An awareness of the long term human manipulation of the environment ought to be fundamental to ecology. The phenomenon of literature and environmental studies includes multiple perspectives to read a literary text. Ecological reading helps to establish a culture of respect to non human world. An ecological poem must not only refer to the natural world, but it also to the role of human beings in the natural cycles. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poems are eco-effects as they are composed by the inspiration of ecological awareness.