Abstract:
This paper offers an ecocritical and narrative reading of a selection of poems from
both Harjo and Hogan. It explores native American legacy and their sense of hope and
revival expressed in their poetry. The selection of poems discussed in this paper
expands our understanding of narrative, with its plot, time and perspective as basic
constituents and how it gives way to multi-focality, timelessness and blurring of main
and marginal in the plot covering both anthropocentric and biocentric perspectives
without overlooking issues of representation, human cognition and multiple levels of
agency. Adopting ecocritical and narrative approaches relocates nature and
spirituality, with focus on water symbols, in the centre of artistic expression not
overlooking stylistic and textual properties at the representation of human
consciousness. Forms of artistic expression offer to expand the oral-tradition and
legacy of Native Americans yet in ―English‖ and poetic form.
