The traces of post-pastoral possibilities in Dylan Thomas’s “F TG F D F” and “R M D F C L”

Year 2021, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 395 - 407, 29.12.2021

Mohsen Zohrab Beigi

Abstract

The target of this survey addresses Dylan Thomas’s “The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower” and “A Refusal to Mourn The Death, by Fire, of a Child in London” in which two eco-centric outlooks known as the creative_destructive process and the interwoven echoes of culture as nature and nature as culture have origins in Terry Gifford's post-pastoral literature. Within an eco-poetic paradigm, Thomas’s eco-critical orientation manifested in natural elements, portrays both possibilities of inspiring and soulless reflection. He believes the cognitive process of death and rebirth appeared in the confrontation of pastoral and anti-pastoral realities involves all minorities whether human or non_human being,therefore demanding inherent roles of communities are needed to dominate an oriented path which not only does it show individual's complexities and awareness in each side, but also make a bridge to reconcile the made gap. Hence, Thomas’s apt imagination of both symbols and natural images ironically summons a prophetic mission rooted in post-pastoral approach.

Keywords

Post-pastoral, Creative-Destructive Process, Minority Standing, Eco-poetic Paradigm, Perpetual Sublimity

Supporting Institution

College of Humanities Islamic Azad University Iran [e-mail]

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