On The Thoughts Of Thoreau's Nature Writing

Thoreau is "the progenitors of modern nature writing".His thoughts of nature writing not only play an important part in promoting the development of nature writing,but also provide the theoretical guidance and practical direction for people treating the relationship between human beings and nature in the global ecological crisis.Therefore,combined with the reality of China,it is of great significance to study Thoreau's multifaceted thoughts of nature writing.Thoreau's thoughts of nature writing are extremely rich.The dissertation has made the following innovations in the process of its research:In order to achieve a more comprehensive grasp of Thoreau's thoughts of nature writing,the textual research materials in dissertation is no longer limited to Thoreau's Walden,but will include all English works including Thoreau's fourteen diaries.At the same time,based on the academic research at home and abroad,Thoreau's works are combed and re-read.Along the main line of the relationship between human beings and nature in Thoreau's thoughts of nature writing,the dissertation interprets Thoreau's"community of love" for human beings and nature,views of natural language and thoughts of natural scientific writing,especially the "community of love" and "tawny grammar" which are less studied at present.The "community of love" between human beings and nature is the ecological ethical foundation of Thoreau's thoughts of nature writing,and it is the combination of the two keywords "love" and "community" in Romanticism.As for community,macroscopically,Thoreau believes that "nature is our common dwelling" and the"cohabitants" include human beings and nature on this "common dwelling".Human beings are in nature and have an equal status with all things in nature.Microscopically,under the impact of industrial civilization,Thoreau's community writing is a look back at his homeland Concord,hoping to reshape the spirit of place of "peace and harmony" in his hometown Concord.Only by realizing "peace and harmony" between human beings and nature can he complete his "Poetry of Concord".Regarding the dimensions of love,Thoreau loves both human beings and nature.For human beings,what Thoreau wants to express is "a kind of beautiful love that can warm society and sympathize with other peoples",and is the expectation of mutual help among human beings in the community.With regard to nature,Thoreau believes that human being should "cultivate reverence" and have "the same regard for nature which excited our sympathy for her creatures",expressing that human beings are responsible to guard the non-human members in the natural community.Only in this way can human beings live "in harmony" with nature.In a word,Thoreau's "community of love"between human beings and nature is an extensive network of the relationships in nature,and is concerned with the issue of how to operate as a community among all things including human beings in nature.Thoreau extended the ethical care of love from human beings to all things in nature,expressing his love for the entire natural world including human beings.Based on the "community of love" between human beings and nature,Thoreau attaches great importance to the role of language in literary creation.Through nature writing,Thoreau expresses his deep concern for the relationship between human beings and nature through nature writing,and constructs his view of natural language.First of all,it is a romantic view of language in which Thoreau believes that Nature possesses sound and also has the ability of language.Thoreau foresees the alienation of the relationship between human beings and nature when the sound of nature is gradually replaced by the sound of industrial civilization,and human beings can get close to nature by studying the language of nature.Thoreau inherited the organic literature creation in the romantic language view.Literature creation of language is an organic entirety.Thoreau proposes that poetry is a fruit of nature,comparing the creation of poetry to the growing process of a plant.Literature creation of Language is organic and holistic.The academic circles have not paid enough attention to Thoreau's "tawny grammar".In fact,it is not a set of normal grammatical system,but a language with natural wildness and vitality.It not only concerns language,but also involves Thoreau's ecological thought of the coexistence of civilization and wildness.Thoreau's view of natural language has always been rooted in nature,concerning the relationship between human beings and nature.It is a holistic and ecological view of language,which belongs to "non-anthropocentrism".It can embody the ecological culture of harmonious coexistence between human beings and nature.Literature creation of language of nature writing not only offers the scientific observation of the natural world,but also covers a kind of nonfiction of nature science writing.As the reference to nature writing,Thoreau's thoughts of nature science writing include his reflecting on the relationship between human beings and nature.In the history of coexistence of human beings and nature,the development of science constantly changes human beings' attitudes towards the relationship between man and the natural world.Thoreau's early thoughts of nature science writing are different from his later ones,which are from Emerson's transcendental scientific view to Humboldt's organic and holistic natural scientific one.Thoreau finally turns to a harmonious holistic view of nature science writing.He proposes that the most scientific person is the friendliest one who is friendly to nature.For natural sciences,he not only maintains awe and love,but also insists on questioning and criticizing.For love of science,Thoreau can calmly observe nature and write nature by way of science.As for criticizing science,Thoreau thinks the inhumanity of science weakens people's love of nature.Meanwhile,science sometimes influences his aesthetic imagination.In his thoughts of nature science writing,Thoreau wishes to develop science into an important dimension in the process of reconstructing the harmonious and friendly relationship between human beings and Nature.In summary,because of his love for human beings and nature,Thoreau always pays attention to the relationship between human beings and nature.Along the relationship between human beings and nature,the dissertation discusses Thoreau's thoughts of nature writing which include the "community of love" between man and nature,Thoreau's view of natural language and his thoughts of nature science writing.The core of Thoreau's thoughts of nature writing is to reconstruct the harmonious relationship between man and nature.He always pays attention to the relationship between human beings and nature to solve the problem of how to get along with nature and seek development,which ultimately points to the construction of a way of life in which human beings should live in harmony with nature.At the same time,Thoreau creates a new era of modern nature writing,provides the practical models for nature writers such as Leopold and Carson,and guides Buell and other eco-critics to a broader study of eco-criticism.Moreover,he provides the theoretical resources for the construction of contemporary ecological aesthetics.During the waves of ecocriticism,Thoreau's thoughts of nature writing are facing the challenges.In the current era of increasingly serious ecological crisis,Thoreau's thoughts of nature writing guide us how to face ecological dilemmas rationally,reflect on the relationship between human beings and nature,and make actions to respect,protect and live in harmony with nature.