Enhancing Ecological Thinking and Affecting Doing: A Study of K.V. Dominic’s Select Ecopoems from Contemporary Concerns and Beyond

Abstract

This paper attempts a critical reading of K.V. Dominic’s select ecopoems from
Contemporary Concerns and Beyond (2016), Doiminic’s sixth collection of poems. It
attempts to explore how Dominic’s evocative ecopoetry substantially contributes to
enhancing ecological thinking and affecting necessary doing among the readers in the
face of global environmental collapse and anthropogenic climate change crisis.
Dominic’s pungent criticism of the anthropocentric approaches in modern society and
an unequivocal celebration of the ethics and praxis of biocentrism obviously carry some
special significance in motivating substantial personal and political human action to
keep the planet a liveable one for the present and future generations. In keeping with
the activist function of ecopoetry, Dominic’s eco-poetics dismantles the myth of human
supremacy and moves the readers to unthink the traditional human idea of nature and
rethink the human-nature relationship from ecoocentric perspective.