Eco-Phenomenology: Life, Human Life, Post-Human Life in the Harmony of the Cosmos by William S. Smith Jadwiga S. Smith & Daniela Verducci

Author:William S. Smith, Jadwiga S. Smith & Daniela Verducci
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Okri’s Human Ecology

Okri’s treatment of humankind in both poems discussed in this article is, likewise, rooted in eco-phenomenology. On the brink of a new life together in London, Viscount Ivor Guest and his bride, Ieva (a Latvian beauty), are enjoined to:… Travel

Into one another, as into

A country you have long admired,

And read many fables about,

And now find yourself

Before its famed rivers

Its inspiring mountains. (Stanza 3, ll.20–26)

In contrast, “Lines in Potentis” is addressed to the London populace, possibly the most cosmopolitan in the world, who are enjoined to attune to the “wild,” to the Elizabethan Music of the Spheres; to “Create the beautiful/Music our innermost/Happiness suggests delight the future./Create happy outcomes” (Stanza 4, ll. 46–49). Londoners, Okri implies, are those who have awakened “to their essential true nature as consciousness and recognize that essence in all ‘other,’ all life forms” (Tolle 2005, 309). They feel a oneness with the ecological epistemology of the whole, as Okri suggests in “Lines …:”Tomorrow’s music sleeps

In our fingers, in our awakening

Souls, the blossom of our spirit

The suggestive buds of our hearts. (Stanza 3, ll. 31–34)

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