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1、OnWordsworthandEmerson’sConceptionsofNature,英美文学论文Abstract:Bycomparingandanalyzingtheirtwopoems,IwilltrytodefineWordsworthandEmerson’srespectiveconceptionofnature.Thereasonwhytheyformedsuchconceptionsofnatureis,totheformer,liesinhispassiveness;andtothelatter
2、,inGermanphilosophyandboldindividualism.KeyWords:conceptionofnature；NATURE；philosophicalconceptionofnature；commonconceptionofnature；passiveness；individualismOutlineI.IntroductionII.Wordsworth’sconceptionofnatureIII.Emerson’sdoubleconceptionsofnatureIV.Conclu
3、sionⅠ.IntroductionInthe19thcentury,romanticismprevailedastheliterarymainstreamthroughouttheEuropeancontinent.WilliamWordsworth(1770-1850)wasoneofthepioneersintheromanticistmovement.Asagreatpoetofnature,hewrotemanyfamouspoemstoexpresshislovefornature,oneofwhi
4、chis“IWanderedLonelyasaCloud”.Inthenarrativepoem,thepoetsuccessfullycomparedhislonelinesswiththehappyandvitaldaffodils.Thedaffodils,thesymbolofthenature,bringgreatjoyandrelieftothespeaker.SoWordsworth’sconceptionofnatureisthatnaturehasalottodowithman,itcanno
5、tonlyrefreshone’ssoulandfillonewithhappiness,butitcanalsobereducedintoabeautifulmemorywhichwillcomfortone’sheartwheninsolitude.In1832RalphWaldoEmerson(1803-1882),anAmericanUnitarianminister,lefttheministryforEuropetopursueacareerinwritingandpublicspeaking.Th
6、ereheacquaintedWordsworthandgotinfluencedbyhim.WhenhereturnedtoNewEngland,heaccomplishedhismasterpieceNature,inwhichhespeaksloudhislovefornatureandexplicateshisphilosophicalideasthatearnedhimthereputationasTranscendentalism’smostseminalforce.However,Emersond
7、idnotjustimitateWordsworthoranyotherEuropeanromanticist’sminds,rather,hisconceptionofnatureisadifferentandmorecomplexone,whichwecanseefromhispoemRhodora.Emersonholdsthatmanandnatureallcomefromthesamepower.Sophilosophically,thispoemshowsEmerson’stranscendenta
8、lismisakindofidealistmonism.AndhisNATUREnotonlyincludesthecommonnature,butalsoincludesman’sbody.SoEmerson’sconceptionofnaturehasdoublemeaning,oneisphilosophical,theothercommon.Afterfurtherexplor
