Philip Jacobite's "Green Book" is his "atypical" work in his later years, combining poetry, prose, and note taking, showcasing the mature form of fragmented writing. Jacobite employs the writing strategy of "phrase seed" in his works to deconstruct and reconstruct language, constructing a spiral and progressive writing chain. The Green Book records the author's journey of contemplation on the world of plants, reflecting the tension between him and language and his adaptive transformation of language. Jacobite's plant poetics has unique ethical and academic value in the study of plant criticism. He reverses the hierarchy between humans and objects, viewing the plant world as a utopia above human intelligence, and examining and questioning this green civilization from multiple dimensions such as genetics, ontology, and linguistics. Jacobite's plant writing provides a new perspective and theoretical framework for plant criticism research, which helps us to better understand the relationship between plants and humans.

'Secular Enlightenment': The momentary connection between plants and poets

Jacob Tai explores the essence of life and the meaning of existence through the interaction between plants and poets in "The Green Book". Plants symbolize rupture, separating humans from their natural home and becoming wanderers. Meanwhile, plants also represent poetic dwelling, coexisting harmoniously with the order of the universe. The poet experienced a quasi religious epiphany in the world of plants, feeling the dialectical relationship between daily life and mystery. The fragrance and presence of plants provide poets with inspiration beyond reason, guiding them back to a more inner life. However, as irreducible others, plants maintain absolute differences from humans, making communication difficult. Poets need to break through their habitual thinking and achieve deep resonance with plants through the power of intoxication. This spiritual experience allows the poet to feel the realization of communication before objects speak or people listen, and the plant's super language pours into its inner world, bringing profound enlightenment.

The Truth of Green: Boundlessness, Transformation, and Circulation

Jacob Tai regards plant civilization as a wordless heavenly book containing natural teachings and mysterious mysteries in his book "The Green Book", exploring the wisdom and utopian living conditions beyond human civilization in the plant world. He formed a "New Plant Writing Community" with contemporary French poets such as Pong é, Jourdan, and Dortmund, and gained insights into the reflection of the cosmic path in the world of plants. Unlike traditional Western botanical or ecological writing, Jacobite and others do not use plants to convey the will of gods or humans, but instead strive to uncover the "green truth" beyond philosophical, religious, and scientific systems.

Plant like writing: the fusion of plant-based and literary elements

Jacob Tai explored the integration of plant and literary elements through "plant-based writing" in his book "Green Book". The poet experiences "worldly enlightenment" under the reflection of plant wisdom, while facing the dilemma of expression. Plants exist as an information communication system that transcends human language, and poets need to use "human language" to convey the true meaning of nature. Jacobite chose to reflect on and transform human language, generating a connection with plant language, and achieving a comprehensive "downgrade" of the author's subjectivity through "baisser le ton" (lowering tone), stripping away individual self, author authority, and human master consciousness.