Human Nature Relationship: A Study in Deep Ecology with Reference to the Select Songs of Tagore from Gitabitan and Gitanjali

Abstract

Ecocriticism is a popular theory which studies environmental concern in literature. In the first phase of the movement the approach was rather shallow. But in the second wave, the attention shifts to the deep ecological understanding of nature having an intrinsic value of every natural phenomenon. The present study is an attempt to explore his select songs from Gitanjali and Gitabitan that celebrate an inevitable bond between man and nature. In nature which is considered to be the whole of the physical environment including the human and the non-human, one thing is connected to another. Deep ecology underlines this equal importance of all organisms in our environment. The selected songs of Tagore taken under critical surveillance, will examine the deep ecological perspectives focussed by the great poet of nature.