A Study of Anti-anthropocentrism in British Animal Poems
This essay studies the British animal poems from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century,including poems written by John Donne,James Thomson,Alexander Pope,Oliver Goldsmith,Robert Burns,Percy Bysshe Shelley,John Clare,D.H.Lawrence,Stevie Smith and Paul Muldoon.These poems aim at revealing how anthropocentrism,or the human-centered idea,puts the animals in an inferior or subordinate position in the human-animal relationship,resulting in mans lack of concern towards animals,ill-treatment and killing of them and animalsdistrust in man or animosity towards man.These poems appeal for equality between man and animals,try to arouse peoples consciousness of animal rights and animal welfare,and thus help to remedy the endangered and corrupted human-animal relationship.
British animal poems anthropocentrism equality animal rights
Wang Qiusheng
Beijing Language and Culture University,Beijing,China
国际会议
重庆
英文
41-48
2019-10-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）