Environmental Collapse and Industrialization in the Ecopoetry of Roseville Nidea

Abstract

The industrialization of the contemporary is creating agony for the environment. The environment that people should supposed to live in becomes a material consumption that thrives to survive rather than live to create harmony with all other living entities. Industrialization gave birth to an anthropocentric view which is detrimental to the environment’s survival. With this, creative masterpieces in response to Slovic’s Third Wave of Ecocriticism viewed through the lens of Plumwood’s Ecocriticism provided a guide in reading the two poems of Roseville Nidea titled Larentine and Sentenced to Death published in The Sustaining the Archipelago: An Anthology of Philippine EcoPoetry by Rina Chua. Roseville Nidea is a published Bicolano writer who emerged from Camalig, Albay, and has been writing poems on ecological consciousness which have been published in varied anthologies. This study aims to draw the environmental collapse in the Bicol ecopoems of Roseville Nidea and analyze the literary poems using ecopoetry. The collapse of the environment in the poems underscored the undervaluation of the environment due to the anthropocentric consciousness and damaging effects of industrialism urged by self-centeredness. The creative expression of the realities in the environment is also a predictive stance of environmental degradation which appeals to a movement on change.