On The Acceptance Of North American Indian Ecosophy By Gary Snyder

American poet Gary Snyder was born in1930. He is not only famous for his outstandingliterary achievements, but also regarded as a deep ecology "Poet Laureate" with his uniqueecological consciousness and his deep love for nature by Peter Kopecky. As the defender ofecological protection, Gary Snyder acts on the multiculturalism concept, absorbing all kindsof culture, including the North American Indian’s civilization which is full of ecosophy, thusforms his own unique ecological thought.The American Indians’ native culture, their ecological ideas which pursue symbiosis withnature and history, and of and of primitive simplicity ecological artistic aesthetics are theimportant factors of deep ecology and ecological poetics are important contributing factors ofGary Snyder’s characteristic depth ecology and ecological poetics. This article aims atstudying ecological tradition of North American Indians in the Gary Snyder’s poetry to showhis inheritance and development for ecology on Indians, to project context and deologicalvalue of considering, and to find special significance of Gary Snyder’s ecological poetics forliterature and social process at present. This thesis is divided into four Chapters in addition tointroduction and conclusion.Chapter One mainly trace to the relationship between Gary Snyder and Indian culture.This part will introduce Snyder’s growth environment in the west coast of North America, richlife experiences, social historical background and the era cultural ideological trend, and thenpoint out that the American Indian culture is the starting point and end-result of Snyder’snative consciousness.Chapter Two introduces Gary Snyder’s eco-nature view. This chapter elaborates theacceptance of North American Indians’ view of nature by Gary Snyder, including the conceptof Earth Mother, animism, totemism, the myth of humans and animals, and the concept offishing and hunting, and thus reveals the deep reasons of harmony between the NativeAmericans and nature. At the same time, it highlights the ecological idea of revering earth,integrating into nature, imitating nature, and the morality of maintenance of maintainingbiodiversity and the entire ecological balance.Chapter There introduces Gary Snyder’s social ecology. This chapter bases on theprevious chapter, and extends to the social political, economic and cultural fields. Affected bythe traditional culture of North American Indians, Snyder advocates ultimate democracy inpolitics, promotes community organizationally, respect for ancestors and traditional culture, and is committed to maintaining the world cultural multiplicity to build a healthy, stable andsustainable development of the social ecological system. Snyder is willing to be thecontemporary shaman to cure the illnesses in nature, modern society and human mind, whichshows a strong sense of social responsibility and compassionate humanistic.Chapter Four studies on Gary Snyder’s ecological aesthetics which from the nature ofpoem and the poet’s aesthetic standpoint. Due to the influence of Indian oral tradition,Snyder’s poetry likes a vivid shorthand picture of the operations of nature. His poetry presentsa style full of musical and colloquial, and his language feature is primordial, simple and plainyet profound. The methods that associate sounds of nature with man’s subconscious areselflessness, forgetting and transcending yourself, achieving unconscious, and deepping inyour place.