The Poetic Construction Of Ecological-ethics In Emerson’ S Prose

Since the 20 th century, the whoop of “People should care for natural ethics”received widespread response. Back to 19 th century, the writer Emerson is in the form of prose to this question has carried on the various extension and depth. The full text is divided into four parts to study how Emerson construct his Ecological-ethics thought by poetic ways in his prose.In the first part of the introduction, combining Emerson’ s prose creation practice with theory development route of ecological ethics, separately definite the three key words“Prose”,“Poetic” and “Ecological-ethics”. It points out that this thesis is based on the concept of generalized prose and the harmonious development of “nature, people and society”----Ecological-ethics to research Emerson’ s prose.The second part begins with Emerson’ s life experience, describing the theoretical basis of Emerson’ s thought of Ecological-ethics, we can find out Emerson’ s inspiration given by the Bible, European Romanticism and the emerging science, which deepen his poetic ideas from the angle of religion, literature and science.The third part systematically analyzes the thought of Ecological-ethics from Emerson’ s essays: the value of natural objects, moral value and artistic value formed Land-ethics;Advocating ‘Self-reliance’ meaning reconstructing the order of individual spirit is the core of Emerson’ s Spirit-ethics; the support for American social movement embodied Emerson’ s Social-ethics ideal of building the national spirit of independence. The mutual cooperation of Land-ethics, Spirit-ethics and Social-ethics constitutes the ecological-ethics system like a huge circle in Emerson’ s prose, promoting the development of modern Ecological-ethics.In the fourth part, by the literary images and language form, emphatically demonstrates the poetic expression of Emerson to his Ecological-ethics thought. First of all, the "Eye" as the core image in his prose is a tool for Emerson to observe nature and human morality, also symbolizes the symbiotic-fusion as well as the existence of the “Over-soul”, which makes Emerson’ s universe exploration goes to the philosophic height, echoing Chinese Lao tse’ s "Tao" at the other distance. Secondly, using multiple rhetoric and borrowing Chinese’ s Confucian language form creates the “Defamiliarization” effect, giving the reader a strong aesthetic enjoyment, showing Emerson’ s ground ideological realm and his personality charm to resist the tradition and the authoritative, which reflects his coexistence and co-prosperity ideal between self and society.Emerson’ s prose is a perfect combination of thoughts and poetic. In the prose, Emerson uses poetic nature nourishes the livelihood of all things, in the spirit of personal independence and breakthrough for the symbiotic-fusion of self and social ideal, his Ecological-ethics thought has important theoretical significance and practical significance for modern human explore the nature, people and society in a poetic and symbiotic-fusion attitude.