We Live, only if the Environment Lives; An Enquiry into Niyi Osundare’s Eco-poems
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Date
2022
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Adefemi, Oguntuase Adebayo
Oluoch, Obura
Kisa, Amateshe
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IIARD
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This paper sets out to investigate the symbiosis between humankind and the environment that
they inhabit. The relationship between the denizens of the earthly environment and the
lifelong interdependence of both flora and fauna are examined in this work. Two of the
volumes of poetry by Niyi Osundare are used in the treatment of the themes of this study.
These are: Waiting Laughters (1990) and The Eye of the Earth (1996). The literary
theoretical approach known as ecocriticism is deployed in the study of the poems selected
from both collections. The study is further underpinned by the Reader Response critical
theory. The paper concludes that a mutually rewarding co-existence is the only prescription
for an augury of pleasure and sustainability between the environment, on the one hand and
humankind, on the other
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Adefemi, O. A., Oluoch, O., & Kisa, A. (2022). We Live, only if the Environment Lives; An Enquiry into Niyi Osundare's Eco-poems. International Journal of English Language & Communication Studies, 7(1).