AN ECO-CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGICAL NARRATIVES IN BILLY COLLINS' "DANCING WORDS"

Abstract

The objective of this research paper is to provide an outstanding path-breaking eco-critical assessment using Robert D. Bullard’s Environmental Justice Theory as the theoretical lens basing on Billy Collins’ poem referred to as “Dancing Words”. The research endeavors to untangle the complex linkages of poetic modes with these environmental worries, and it will initially discuss how literature can function as an influential tool in regards to articulating environ mentality. Taking into account Bullard’s concept of the Environmental Justice Theory, which is occupied with portraying Hugo vision on how environmental benefits and burdens are distributed unevenly in society among those various groups Collins can definitely be viewed like one cite that involves some socio-environmental implications.