Poetic Ethics of K C Sharma and Vishnu S. Rai: Environmental Desiccation and Moral Responsibility

Abstract

In a world of today, environment is under the shroud of great threat caused by human rationality and scientific advancement. This paper attempts at exploring how human civilization of today has been a main cause of ecological degradation resulting in manifold of serious problems to the present and even to the future generation through the poetry of Sharma and Rai. The materialistic society, by forgetting the essence of humanity and the harmonious relationship between man and nature has become a prey to self-destruction. Ecocriticism has emerged as a catalyst to eliminating the gap between man and nature. Academia literati, through their works try to impart awareness in favor of human civilization to conserve nature in order to make life sustainable and worth living, but economic value system of our society forces one to become deaf and dumb. Many essayists, poets and story writers show their deep concern to environmental crisis. Great tension between natural world and human world which are on collision course and how it is targeting third world generation is, perhaps, the best example of Covid-19. We forget that we are social animal. Sharma and Rai return air-compressed say of people to their true color. Natural calamities are resulted from human deliberate actions which are for the time being appears to be profitable but later on proved to be long lasting danger to which they are quite unaware of. Our ethics is to follow natural etiquette and to protect impending generation. Ethics and moral responsibility of so called ultra-modern people of today’s society is neither wholeheartedly viable to their familial, societal circle nor does honestly fit with physical environment. This paper unveils the reason to why one should create friendly environment in communion with the soul of nature and how environment is being polluted, how nature is educating the human society to remain truthful to each other to become healthy and sustainable.