the difference between eco-criticism and Romantic poetry

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ECOCRITICAL AND ROMANTIC POETRY

Ecocritical poetry and that of Romantic poetry have very similar characteristics, and also technical differences.     

Ecocritical, as a world is derived from two words, and they are “ecology” and
“critic”. Ecology is the branch of science that deals with the relations of organisms to one another, and to their physical surroundings. While critics mean one who accesses any work in other to find fault, and make possible corrections.

          Ecocriticism talks about the environment from an interdisciplinary point of view, where literature scholars analyse texts that illustrate environmental concerns and examine the various ways literature treats the subject of nature.

          Ecocritics seeks for corrections of the environments current situation. It is seen as a means of describing poetic projects that that embrace the ecological imperative for personal sensitivity and social change.

          It investigates the relationship between human activities and the natural world in terms of the influence of each, upon the other.

          Romantic poetry is the study of nature, and how man supposes to be part of nature. The romantics believe that we study nature so as to understand it and be part of it, but the scientist belief that we study nature to understand it and conquer it.

          A major difference that exist between romantics and ecocritics, is that the romantics write in a clear simplified and common language form, unlike the formal writing. They try to bring poetry down for the common man to be able to read. They try to create emotions so as when being read, the reader will feel as if there is a voice speaking to him.

          We can understand romanticism more by looking at the poem by Alexander Pope “An Essay on Criticism” and also wordsworths “Anectedote For Fathers”. Reading both poems, we will see wordsworth trying to use a simplified language form for a common reader to be able to read and understand.

          Conclusively, Romantic poetry deals not only on nature like the ecocritical, they also deal on the language form. Romanticism is just for the praise of nature. While Ecocritical deals only on nature, how it has been hurt by man, and thereby rendering solutions to it. How the eco-system has been hurt. It doesn’t praise, but romanticism is just praise of nature.

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