Marvell's "To his Coy Mistress" and Devkota's "In Falgun Blooms the Entire World": Western vs Eastern Treatment to Nature
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Western view of human and nature relationship is anthropocentric. It takes human being as the center of value and nature as an object created for human benefit. One may wonder how may be the eastern view of human and nature relationship. This article studies how the east takes nature. This has been done by studying mainly two love poems: one English poet Marvell's "To his Coy Mistress" and another Nepali poet Devkota's “In Falgun Blooms the Entire World”. They are representative poems of the western anthropocentric and eastern non-anthropocentric relationship with nature.
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