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This paper analyses selected poems in the poetry collection of Joe Ushie entitled Hill Songs and those of Unimna Angrey’s collection entitled Drought (Ubuang) . It is an investigation of the linguistic choices that the selected writers have made in order to establish their connections with their environment and the representation of the effects of the negative and unfavourable conduct and destructive activities of man on it (the environment). The paper uses a conflation of three theories- ecofeminism, modification in grammar and conceptual theory of metaphor. In this respect, focus is mainly on the use of lexical items, verses, the imagery and certain literary devices, such as metaphor and simile, that the poets deploy in their works to establish that connection and the attack that the environment, which man is inextricably a part of, has undergone in man’s quest for development. The aim is to draw attention to the poetic discourse on the effects of the man’s interactions with the environment as expressed by these new poets. The paper concludes that the poets’ concern for, and conviction about the symbiosis between man and the environment have constrained the deployment of anthropomorphic and anthropocentric idiom and the style of their poetry.

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Umbilical Accord and Symbiosis between Man and the Environment: A Stylistic Analysis of Selected Poems of Joe Ushie’s Hill Songs and Unimna Angrey’s Drought (Ubuang)