| | Contemporary Canadian Poetry from the Edge: An Exploration of Literary Eco-criticism |
 | | Nowlan's ecolect employs both explicit and implicit strategies to convey his awareness of environmental destruction and human compliance in it. |
 | | The speaker's reverence for nature, the duty s/he feels to show respect for the mountains' humility, dignity, and rights finds expression in an ecolect that is dominated by personifications of nature and a view of the landscape as self-sufficient, peaceful, and interactive as long as it is not disturbed by human forces. |
 | | An analysis of the ecolects employed by Anne Campbell and Fred Wah shows these poets to be more interested in capturing the reciprocal relationship between writer and nature; their poems are also more complex than Nowlan's and Lowther 's because they are self-reflexive of their own status as poetry. |
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