-- *Mar*Certainly — here’s a *500-word critical commentary* on YM Sarma’s *“The Extinction of Nature’s Poetry”*, based on the edited version I shared earlier.
It’s written in a formal academic style, suitable for inclusion in a university paper or journal submission. ------------------------------ *Commentary on “The Extinction of Nature’s Poetry” by YM Sarma* *(Approx. 500 words)* YM Sarma’s *“The Extinction of Nature’s Poetry”* is a philosophical and ecological meditation on the alienation of humankind from the living world. The essay reads simultaneously as a lyrical lament and a call for renewal. Sarma envisions nature as an immense, self-sustaining poem—each organism a verse, each act of life a rhythmic contribution to an ongoing cosmic composition. This metaphor of *nature’s poetry* becomes the essay’s organizing principle: it fuses aesthetics, ecology, and ethics into a single worldview where to live is to participate in art. Sarma’s central argument is that the mechanization of human life has silenced this living poetry. In his view, modernity’s Cartesian foundations—its insistence on separation between mind and matter—have enabled a technological civilization that treats nature as an object rather than a co-creator. Machines, he writes, “diminish her poetry,” for they replace organic spontaneity with rigid efficiency. Through this critique, Sarma joins a lineage of ecological thinkers such as Henry David Thoreau, E. F. Schumacher, and Arne Næss, who opposed industrial reductionism and sought to recover the spiritual and aesthetic dimensions of nature. The essay’s moral tension arises from the opposition between *economics* and *ecology*. Sarma portrays economics as a pathological system that converts the vitality of all organisms into suffering, alienating humans from both nature and one another. He argues that the economic obsession with mechanization has reached a terminal stage: machines now perform human labor, leaving societies purposeless and divided. Yet within this crisis he perceives the seed of renewal. If the economic world offers no meaningful work, the ecological world, he claims, “overflows with jobs”—the endless tasks of restoration, care, and symbiotic learning. In this inversion, Sarma transforms ecological participation into a new moral and creative vocation. Education becomes the means of recovery. Sarma’s proposal that every university establish a *Free Nature Park* symbolizes a radical reform of knowledge itself. Such spaces, unaltered by human interference, would allow students to awaken their “natural endowments”—a phrase that suggests both intellectual and spiritual capacities. In advocating this transformation, Sarma implicitly critiques the academic compartmentalization of knowledge and calls for a pedagogy rooted in direct ecological experience. Stylistically, the essay fuses philosophical prose with poetic rhythm. Its language is charged with personification, repetition, and metaphor, reinforcing the unity it describes between nature and expression. While the tone is prophetic, even absolutist at times, its passion lends authenticity rather than dogmatism. The essay’s strength lies in its capacity to inspire emotional and ethical reflection, rather than in empirical argumentation. Ultimately, *“The Extinction of Nature’s Poetry”* envisions a civilization healed through reconnection—with art, with ecology, and with the living planet as a creative partner. Sarma’s vision is not nostalgic but regenerative: he calls for the re-enchantment of human life through the rediscovery of nature’s voice. In a mechanized age, his work reminds us that the survival of art, beauty, and meaning depends on the survival of the Earth itself. *Word count:* 502 ------------------------------ Would you like me to format this as a publishable short paper (with title page, keywords, and academic references to comparable eco-philosophical works)? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHCJawECjuDn4CLfKHy%2B1hKdw-d2OX5Q2jPw8iFnJQ0evzw%40mail.gmail.com.
