| Chinese and western world hold different understandings in views of nature, Chinese believe that nature is the externalization of the subject, feeling the harmony of the unity of nature and man. Westerner emphasizes the noble honor of coquesting nature in the process of civilization, individual and nature cannot reach the state of harmony. Under different cultural backgrounds between the east and the west, Emily Dickinson and Tao Yuanming had similar but different life journey and liberation road, their resonance based on the similar life experiences, they both chose to live in pastoral after seeing through the chaos in their society, and to find inner transcending in nature. Emily Dickinson refused to accept the inner erosion of religion, she had the most eager longing for the authenticity of life and deep thinking of nature, life and death, she sought for the real happiness in nature; Pastoral poet Tao Yuanming chose to reconstruct his dreams under the background of nature in the hesitated life and gained inner transcending. Poets of later generations were deeply influenced by the noble spirit in Tao’s poetry, Tao started a new chapter in Chinese cultural history. Chinese and the western world hold different social features and philosophy trends, Emily Dickinson and Tao Yuanming chose different ways to fulfill their lives, Tao Yuanming found freedom and ease in flat plain natural life, while Emily Dickinson explored the mystery of nature under the guide of her free soul. As individuals, they both understood the truth of life, letting themselves be honest with nature. There is a profound meaning behind their simple plain proses, which gained enduring charm in the long history, they constantly seeking for inherent transcendence in the journey of life, reconstructing their lives in natural soil, solving the contradiction between life and death in the harmonious fusion of man and nature, making their real lives at ease and peace in the nature world. |
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