Revisiting Nepali Identity through Nature: A Cultural Reflection in “Nepal Calling You”

Abstract

The present research paper explores the representation of nature in Suresh Jung Shah’s poem “ Nepal Calling You.” Shah, in this poem, integrates nature, culture and national identity to create a ecofriendly bond among them. The main objective of this paper is to reflect the cultural awareness and ecological bond that regenerates national identity and ecofriendly awareness. Shah personifies glaciers, rivers, fields, trees, and birds, generating a romantic awareness as well as a national identity. Shah, in his poem, evokes his love and dedication towards his motherland, exploring the natural beauty of Nepal. Through the lyrical repetition, rhythmic structure and vivid imagery, Shah encapsulates the natural organs into metaphors of belonging. This poem is an ecological and cultural meditation that creates cultural nostalgia. Shah, in this poem, reveals that identity is built on embedding with natural awareness and cultural memory. This paper concludes that identity fosters the harmony between culture and nature.  The study incorporates ecocriticism, romanticism, and cultural identity as a theoretical framework advocating the scholarly ideas of Glotflety, Hasan , Coleridge and Wordsworth.