Poet, Lover And Birdwatcher By Nissim Ezekiel

Environmental cataclysm is the most imperative concern the globe is facing in the present day. A wide range of environmental tribulations such as climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, degraded air and water quality, dearth of fresh water, land contamination, deforestation, soil erosion and biodiversity loss have surfaced the entire globe. The issue of environmental crisis has become the major concern of environmental science and management unit or departments. They have been playing multifarious roles to tone down this crisis. In this context, creators of black and white pages are too playing crucial roles. Litterateurs have been presenting their biocentric ethical concerns in their pages. In literature, environmental concerns and awareness began to crop up in the 1970s with the importance that was given to Sahelian droughts of the 1970s and the nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986. Thenceforth ecocriticism marched as a critical and deconstructive concept in literature. Nissim Ezekiel (1942-2004) has dealt with a wide variety of themes in his poems such as love, isolation, human flaws and imperfections, superstitions but at the same time he seems to have biocentric approach in some of his poems such as “Squirrel”, “Sparrows”, “Poet, Lover and Birdwatcher”.
Key words: Biocentric, Ecocrticism, Environment, Mankind, Poetry.

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This poem carries beauty and aesthetic sense within it but at the same time it is blunt enough to criticize the human behavior towards nature. The language is lucid enough and direct which makes the subject matter stand as a statement without any pretense. “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher” brings within its purview nature as well as human and non-human entity. According to the poet, birds and women represent nature and that it is not possible to value and identify with them hastily. They cannot be studied under compulsion or even in