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Alice Oswald’s Falling Awake presents as a dark text to (re)turn (in)to, its language of ‘… maybe the last green places[. In Tolkien’s Roverandom (1998), an ill-mannered puppy named Rover is sent on a voyage to the moon and the Deep Blue Sea. Over the years the author has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Aux confins entre esthétique et poétique, nous voyons combien l’esthétique de la nouvelle L'homme qui plantait des arbres nous met sur la voie d’une attention au monde de la vie.

ABSTRACT The ‘dark green’ refers to the green plant-human relationships that undergird human cultures as well as the darkly petroleum-fueled industrialization, mass species extinctions, and strange new ecosystems in the Anthropocene. This is Proteus, whoever that is': David Wheatley finds Alice Oswald's river flows smoothly between Hughesian myth and Larkinesque realism, in Dart". It contains, the author pointed out, ‘a rush of selves’ as well as ‘a stronghold of other life forms’.

Crow analysing Ted, attacking Eliot, waging weird wars on poetry, vandalising the text, the twentieth century, myth. At the same time, I argue the usefulness of Peter Hollindale’s theory of “childness,” in reading texts containing unreliable child narrators. C’est la raison pour laquelle la nouvelle de Giono recrée « l'imaginaire environnemental » si cher à Buell, mettant en relief l'inefficacité de la technique dans la crise environnementale.

Using conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon as a poetic census, Alice Oswald creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. Her first collection of poetry, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), includes poems reflecting her love of gardening and the entertaining long poem, 'The Men of Gotham'.This dissertation intends to demonstrate the authenticity of Tropicália as a Brazilian music by situating it in a number of Brazilian cultural traditions.