Poetic strategies of ecological representation in poschmann’s Flomm Oder Matt and Dorothea Rosa Herliany’s Gaun Burung Gagak

Contemporary poetry represents ecological issues not only through nature-based themes but also through poetic strategies that establish connections between humans, animals, and space. This study aims to compare the poetic strategies in Marion Poschmann’s Flomm oder Matt and Dorothea Rosa Herliany’s Gaun Burung Gagak and to explain the ecological representations constructed through these strategies. This study is a qualitative descriptive study using a comparative literary approach. The data consists of two poems analyzed through a stylistic reading, focusing on personification, metaphor, repetition, symbolism, and irony. The results of the analysis were then interpreted using Greg Garrard’s ecocritical concepts, particularly animals, dwelling, wilderness, and apocalypse. The results of the study show that both poems criticize anthropocentric tendencies in the relationship between humans and nature, but present them through different poetic strategies. Flomm oder Matt’s poem employs ironic personification, repetition, and metaphors of artificial space to depict animals in a human-controlled environment. Meanwhile, the poem Gaun Burung Gagak uses symbolism, simile, metaphors, and personification to present the raven as both a symbol of hunger and a poetic agent driving change. These differences give rise to two patterns of ecological representation. Poschmann’s poetry represents nature as an entity subject to anthropogenic control and structure, whereas Herliany’s poetry presents nature as an entity that plays an active role in shaping the relationship between humans and the environment. This study shows that poetic strategies serve not only as aesthetic elements but also as a means of shaping an ecological perspective in contemporary poetry across literary traditions.

Keywords: ecological representation, poetic strategies, poetry, comparative literature