Ecofeminist perspectives in the poetry of Mary Oliver (1935-2019)‎ and Margaret Atwood (1939)‎ : a comparative study

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This study attempts to show how the connection between the oppression of women and the destruction of nature in patriarchal social system is portrayed in the poetry of Mary Oliver and Margaret Atwood.

It focuses on three main principles of the theory of ecofeminism.

Within the course of the study, some of Oliver‘s and Atwood‘s poems are analyzed.

Also, there is a comparison between their points of view.

Despite their different points of view, ecofeminists work together to end the ecological crisis and to achieve social justice