A material ecocritical approach to the poetry of Dylan Thomas

Material ecocriticism, representing a material turn in ecocritical studies, is faithfully committed to undermine the anthropocentric ideology of humans’ superiority over natural environment and reconfigures human nonhuman beings as materially entangled entities whose stories well physical bodies are interwoven together. What essentially emphasized by theory indistinguishable relatedness coexistence universe textuality, mattfer language, nature. Demolishing human’s exceptional status nature rejecting any kind guardianship nature, ecocriticism unshackles from representations, definitions or meanings attributes vitality agency elements that capable producing meaningful their own. Accordingly, Dylan Thomas (1924-1953) reinforces man’s situatedness within earth throughout his poetry, instead constructing impermeable discrepancies between develops ecological understanding which biologically connected each other. Therefore, aim this study analyze Thomas’ poetry perspective provide an insight depiction dynamic entity rather than passive object.