This study aims to utilize Maurice Merleau-Ponty's environmental phenomenology in analyzing the
chosen poems written by Frank O'Hara, a significant figure in the New York School of Poetry.'
Eco-phenomenology 'is where philosophy and ecology meet. Encouraging to revi
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This study aims to utilize Maurice Merleau-Ponty's environmental phenomenology in analyzing the
chosen poems written by Frank O'Hara, a significant figure in the New York School of Poetry.'
Eco-phenomenology 'is where philosophy and ecology meet. Encouraging to review the traditional
beliefs of Western philosophy about nature, this relatively new vogue of criticism deals with
environmental issues from a phenomenological perspective. This article aims to analyze several poems
by Frank O'Hara from the New York School of Poetry through the lens of eco-phenomenology. The
goal is to challenge the perception that this poetic movement is solely urban and lacks awareness of the
natural environment. By highlighting a divide within this poetry that demonstrates an understanding of
a wider phenomenological world, encompassing both humans and non-humans, we aim to refute the
notion of reductive urbanism. Being a Critique of Cartesian mind-body dualism and the anthropocentric
perspective resulting from it, this study applies the chiasmic ontology of Merleau-Ponty to the selected
poems. The present research demonstrates that O'Hara's poetry exhibits a prevailing mutual participation
between human flesh and the 'flesh of the world', as described by Merleau-Ponty's concept of chiasm,
particularly during moments of perception. This study examines how O'Hara's work demonstrates the
concept of 'body', a crucial term in Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, and how this demonstration leads to
the development of an eco-phenomenological perspective in his urban poetry. Conducting both textual
and contextual analyses, this research brings to the fore O’Hara’s eco-consciousness and his vision of
interrelations governing the universe, despite his embracing urban life.
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