Waterscapes under threat: a comparative study on environmental concerns in the select poems of Mario Petrucci and Margaret Atwood

Resumen

Water, has been perennially celebrated by poets of all ages in Literature. Sir C.V. Raman has endearingly named it the “elixir of life”. However, in due course of time, Eco Studies has subjected water to an academic scrutiny. This paper revolves around the incredible destructive power of waterscapes during unexpected catastrophe. Waterscapes include all the sources of water bodies like sea, river, lake, wetland, ocean, and even ponds. The paper dives deep into water, marking it as a dynamic metaphor and explores the inevitable connection between human beings and water. Along with this the paper touches upon pollution, climate change, unpredictable weather patterns, rising of sea levels and extinction of species all in association with waterscapes. Mario Petrucci, an Italian born British poet and Margaret Atwood, a multi — faceted Canadian poet are greatly concerned more about the ecological welfare of the universe and hence the most striking poems of both the poets have been chosen for study. Petrucci’s poems “Goluboy”, “Light”, “India”, “Pripyat” and Atwood’s “Frogless”, “Spring in the Igloo”, “Bear’s Lament” and “Vermilion Flycatcher, San Pedro River, Arizona” explore the threats faced by the waterbodies across the countries.