Human-Nature Relationship in Louise Gluck's Selected Poems

Abstract

This research work studies how Coleridge’s idea of organic unity—“unity in multiplicity” is applicable in Louise Gluck’s selected poems. The research explores the close relationship among all the elements of nature. The life of all the creatures including humans cannot be imagined without the existence of nature, and nature remains dim in their absence. This research also undercuts the anthropocentric temperament and advocates for the biocentrism as found in Gluck’s poems, particularly in “Radium.” This project, in particular, studies a deep association between nature and human beings in Gluck’s selected poems like “Mother and Child,” “Aubade” and “October.” Similarly, Glück picturizes beauty of nature and the earth in her poem “The Seven Ages.” The change that occurs in the human life affects nature, and there undergoes certain changes in nature which affects human beings. Deterioration of nature does not lead anywhere except destruction of human life itself. Basically, Gluck’s poems like “Rain in Summer” and “Stars” capture the theme that destruction of nature invites tragedy or disasters in human life. So, the conservation of nature is necessary for the smooth ongoing of ecosystem. Louise Glück appeals for the conservation of nature in her poems.