Ecology and Buddhism: A case study of Eco-concrete poem from Tree of life to English Students’ works

Abstract

This study aimed: 1) to investigate students for understanding Eco literature concept through concrete poems, 2) to evaluate ecocriticism effectiveness understanding of 1^st year English students at Faculty of Liberal Arts and Science, Nakhon Phanom University. The data was 3 samples of concrete ecocriticism poems by students who are outstanding in Buddhist concept. The findings revealed that the most popular words of ecopoems are Buddhist, natural and environment, in which students make up the highest rate in occurrence frequency. In lexical relations, these selected words are relational semantics. The meaning of the word can be defined as the total set of meaning relations in which it participates. Moreover, the actual practice of relational semantics or relations of that kind in relations of hyponymy. In conclusion, the students can learn and concern about ecology and Buddhism through creative writing such a concrete poem. Besides, this is a way to create some literary works, it can contribute to point on the concerning about nature as well.