Thoreau's View On Nature

Thoreau is the American romantic poet of 19th century. He loves nature and is in owe of nature, and his poetic descriptions of nature make his works become the classics in the American prose. As the adherent of the Transcendentalism, of which Emerson is the leader, in his early time Thoreau embraces that everything has spirit and nature is the emblem of spirit. Later, he gradually directs to naturalism, and embraces that nature is not only the existence of practice and reality, but also the headspring of all animas. He believes that human is only one part of nature and is nature's children. The relation between human and nature should be (?)a certain tender relationship. Human should be amicable to nature, preserve nature and return to nature. Based on this novel and abstruse view of nature and ethic, he is reputed as the forerunner and founder of the American Ecoliterature.The thesis analyzes Thoreau's view on nature from three aspects: The first part explores his idealistic origin, the historic resource and the course in which Thoreau's view on nature came into being from three angles that are Thoreau's life experience, the context of history and culture, and Emerson's influence. The second part analyzes the cultural connotation of Thoreau's view on nature which is made up of three dimensions and three layers that are the beauty of nature, the spirit of nature and the family of nature. The Walden Or Life in the woods primarily embodies Thoreau's view on nature and corresponds to Chinese ancient human affinity with nature and the universe, The Walden also takes on the aesthetic significance and should be regarded as the classics or model of Ecoliterature. The third part discusses the modern implication of Thoreau's, view on nature by analyzing the rise of modern Ecocriticism and the Ecocriticism's concern on Thoreau.