Literary ecology may be defined as a new interpretation of the rationalistic duality between the human organism and its environment, paying close attention to the intrinsic value of other species, systems and processes in nature. Ecological imagination thus is an extension of the human into its environment, seeking tentative harmonies, ideals, and meanings, not defined exclusively in terms of the human but experienced at the more biological and elemental level at which all life shares the same consciousness. Wallace Stevens endeavors to reenvision the relationship between human beings and nonhuman nature and attempts to find an alternative, “the great poem of the earth,” which can properly explain the modern human condition. Stevens' poetry could be seen as an ecological reimagining of the nature/culture dialectics and a restoration of its neglected term nature. His poetic ideas parallel to the elements of ecological thoughts in that he considers man as an integral part of natural world, represents nature as presence, and describes the human as participant in rather than observer of that natural process. In this regard, Stevens' earth poems seek to find what will suffice in respond to current ecological problems.
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