Mourning The Disruption In Nature’s Harmony: A Comparative Study Of The Selected Poems Of Muhammad Israr Atal And William Wordsworth

Abstract

Environmental Concerns find a key space in contemporary literary writings. The main aim is to draw attention towards the rapid threats and negative behaviors towards nature and environment in the wake of modern day climate disasters. Addressing this issue is a global phenomenon that is why concerns have been raised by literary writers from many parts of the world where the issue is seriously considered. In such writings we find a tone of environme[1]ntal melancholia and ecological grief. In this connection, the current study aims to investigate the similarities in approaches towards the concerns about disruption in nature’s harmony in the selected Pashto and English poems. The sample of the study consists of Muhammad Israr Atal’s poem ‘Munafiqat’ translated as ‘Hypocrisy’ and William Wordsworth poem ‘The World is Too Much with Us’ from multiple ecocritical theorists such as Cheryll Glotfelty who emphasized the readers to closely investigate a particular text for the representation of natural world. Her groundbreaking book ‘The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology’ (1996) provides many key insights on this relationship. The ideas of Carolyn Merchant as stated in her seminal work ‘The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (1990) are also incorporated. The study also takes insights for its analysis from the works of David Harvey’s work ‘Spaces of Hope’ (2000). The main aim of this study is to investigate the similarities in both these works towards critiquing and preserving the environmental values and thus draws attention to imminent ecological perils engulfing the world.