Ecological Sensibility in Gray Snyder Selected Poems

Abstract

Gray Snyder was a major English poet whose views towards nature and man's treatment of nature have supported his position as an important icon of ecocritical studies. His fame lies in the general belief that he has been viewed as a nature poet who viewed Nature superior to humans. In other words, his views about nature and his poems seek to heal the long-forgotten wounds of nature in the hope of reaching unification between man and nature. Therefore, this study is an attempt to focus on Snyder's selected poems: ''Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout,'' "For All,'' ''Water,'' ''Milton by Firelight,'' ''Ripple on the Surface," "Anasazi,'' ''Manzanita'' and ''Hay for My Horses.'' in the light of ecocriticism in order to shed light on the poet's cautious views about the interdependence of man and nature. Through the poems takes into account the importance of the reciprocal relationship between man and nature as the major constituent of a vast ecosystem and suggest humans to assimilate ecologically and achieve tranquility in an era suffocated by technological pollution.