Henrikus Joko Yulianto
In today’s posthumanist era, human’s daily life intensively depends on material things they consume not only for basic needs but more especially to satisfy his/her social needs for certain ways of life. Human material engrossment certainly has impacts on the environmental degradation since this agency correlates with the anthropogenic over-extraction of earthbound material resources. Poetry as one aesthetic work serves as the agent that raises one’s ecological conscience to cherish any biotic life form rather than merely to over-extract the material resources. Afrizal Malna and Karlo Sevilla’s poems depict anthropogenic consumerism of urban regions, especially Jakarta and Metro Manila as the cities in the third-world countries that were allured by the globalized standards of modern way of living. Material things such as petrol and its derivative products are examples of the stuff the poems polemicize as turban phenomena and their several problems such as air and water pollution, rising temperature, and despoiled physical landscapes. Bearing the ecological agents, the poems raise the alarm to evoke humans to live judiciously in biotic life. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.
State University of Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia
