Thoreau's Theory Of Ecocriticism

Thoreau’s Ecocriticism: An Improved Means to Unimproved Ends
We live in a dynamic world, de facto, undergoing inevitable major changes (technical); fast moving materialistic life sparing no place for human values (social); global warming- an era of environmental obliteration (environmental), and literary studies still in an age of constant flux. Besides, the outright absence of human touch with the natural world and the self-centeredness approach potentially created a space and contributed to environmental catastrophe. Foresee the colossus threat to our lives, ethics, values, and nature; the immediate glimpse and a unique approach to lessen the aforesaid problems and global environmental crises, which struck in mind to contribute essentially is the concept of ecocriticism.
The point of this paper is to foster an awareness of the varied uses to which scholars are putting the term in varied perspectives today. Besides, the paper will inspire

Thoreau lived by the cove of Walden in order to be able to read the changing moods and whims of Nature. Like Wordsworth, he was thrilled in the face of the freshness and charms of natural scenes, sight, and sounds. Walden Pond has become almost a symbol of permanence and eternity in art, in the same way as Yeats’ Byzantium. John Burroughs and John Muir were mainly the two great American naturalists, whose early work was influenced by Whitman, particularly the essays collected in Wake‐Robin (1871) and Birds and Poets. (1877). Mostly, the scholars undertook works on American and British literature from the last two centuries. Emerson’s nature and Thoreau’s Walden are perhaps considered the significant works of nature and ecology concerned. (2016: