The Malaysian National Laureate Muhammad Haji Salleh has always been true to his green roots. Even when things are hard, he finds comfort and interest in Motherland's embrace. This paper is aimed to highlight the identity-land symbiotic interconnectedness in Muhammad Haji Salleh’s selected poems through the lens of ecocriticism. In the selected poems we examined the concept of eco-consciousness with the purpose of to better understand how Muhammad Haji Salleh view the concept of personal identity as intrinsically tied to the natural world. Upon detailed analysis of the selected poems, it becomes evident that Muhammad Haji Salleh has never ceased preaching about the plight of the Malaysian land and landscape and the urgent need for worldwide attention. His poetry proves that he utilizes the land and landscape as an iconic form of aspiration and even ecocritically functional and through the application of the concept of eco-consciousness, the researchers conclude that while there are s.....

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Eco-images of land and landscape is a conception that showcases the physical environment and the natural world. This study intended to explore how Muhammad Haji Salleh utilizes the concepts of land and landscape as ecocritically functional in his poetry. It is mainly focused to have explore the representations of the interconnectedness between identity and land as embodied in the selected poems of Muhammad Haji Salleh. Ecocriticism is an aspect of literary theory, which has been growing swiftly since the early 1990s that focuses mainly on the study of the relationship between humans and the natural world. Through the theoretical framework of ecocriticism, the researcher has examined and classified nine poems of Muhammad Haji Salleh_s collection entitled Rowing Down Two Rivers according to the theme and message conveyed. The methodology of analysis consists of three waves referring to the phases in ecocriticism in accordance to the three distinctive objectives of the study. Accordingly,.....

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