Ecological Economy: An Eco-critical Perspective of Omar Tarin’s Poetry

Abstract

Life on the Earth is shared by multi types of organisms; these organisms facilitate, irritate, or eliminate the existence of their fellow beings. The central role among organisms is held by man in view of different religions and logic, but the life of this major organism depends on the lives of other organisms. This interdependent and interrelated nature of life on the planet generates a consistent debate of determinism among thinkers. One relatively recent concept in this regard is Anthropocentrism, which awards the central role to man; the will of man is to determine the lives of the rest of the organism. This authoritative role allows man to exploit the lives of other living beings and thus irritates threats, or end the existence of these organisms. This threatening and exploitative way of life on the part of man not only endangers the lives of the other organism, but also the life of the very man, because the life of man itself depends on the existence of other living beings. Ecocriticism surfaces the devastation caused by anthropocentric way of life to the rest of lives on the earth; it reminds man the role of safe guarding the planet by facilitating the existence of other organisms. The close reading of the text of the poetry of Tarin criticizes the debilitating role of man, and pinpoints the devastation caused by human actions to the rest of the organism in the ecology. His poetic laments alarms the anthropocentric man to step back from the devastating adventures; otherwise, the futility of those action will put an end to life as a whole on this planet.