Ali Salami

ECO CRITICAL READING OF SWEDENBORGIAN AND ARABIAN`S CONCEPTS IN BLAKE`S SELECTED POETRY

Blake has long been considered uncomfortable by environmental critics and many environmentalists have claimed that he cannot be considered an environmentally conscious poet. At the same time, there are other critics who seek to manipulate and ignore some of Blake`s negative portrayals of nature and to show that he can be included in contemporary critical readings of the environment. This essay focuses on Ibn Arabi`s ‘Constant Immanence’ and ‘Unity of Being’ and Emanuel Swedenborg`s notions of ‘correspondence’ and ‘influence’ to uncover the long-standing correlation between human kinship and his attitude towards nature in Blake`s selected poems. The promotion of such an ecocritical view, based on the philosophical views of Ibn Arabi and Swedenborg in Blake`s selected poems could reveal total submission to spiritual consciousness, as this God-centered ideology allows for nothing but reverence for the environment, as it is the epitome of God, the absolute Creator.

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