As an outstanding writer in America, Whitman regarded his Leaves of grass as his own life. In Leaves of grass, he eulogized ＂self＇ with great enthusiasm and expressed the idea that self was eternal and imperishable,...As an outstanding writer in America, Whitman regarded his Leaves of grass as his own life. In Leaves of grass, he eulogized ＂self＇ with great enthusiasm and expressed the idea that self was eternal and imperishable, just like the cycle of the nature. The concept of the ＂self＇ embodied in Whitman＇s Leaves of grass possessed double structure： body and soul; microcosmic and macroscopic. Whitman＇s recognition to ＂self＇ was the continuation of Emerson＇s thought, but he also had his own breakthrough. He explored the connotation of ＂self＇ from the relation self with mankind, time, nature and God. Self was always undying not only in body but also in soul. The relations among people were the foundation of self, which possessed boundless time and measureless space and which could come true through rotation of nature in perpetuity and be flow of empathy in perpetuity.展开更多
Re-examined from the principles of Deep Ecology initiated by Arne Naess,Walt Whitman’s treatment of his 16 poems under the title of“Children of Adam”towards nature violates sustainability and the harmony between ma...Re-examined from the principles of Deep Ecology initiated by Arne Naess,Walt Whitman’s treatment of his 16 poems under the title of“Children of Adam”towards nature violates sustainability and the harmony between man and nature.First of all,the elitism of the new Adam is far away from the man-in-environment image advocated by Deep Ecology.Second,the unrestrained seed-spreading that Whitman boosts in his“spermatic trope”doesn’t take into account the rights to subsistence of myriad species of life and women’s right of choice.Third,in Whitman’s eyes,nature is lack of diversity and richness and his“omnisexual vision”has overlooked the diverse values of nature in themselves.展开更多
文摘As an outstanding writer in America, Whitman regarded his Leaves of grass as his own life. In Leaves of grass, he eulogized ＂self＇ with great enthusiasm and expressed the idea that self was eternal and imperishable, just like the cycle of the nature. The concept of the ＂self＇ embodied in Whitman＇s Leaves of grass possessed double structure： body and soul; microcosmic and macroscopic. Whitman＇s recognition to ＂self＇ was the continuation of Emerson＇s thought, but he also had his own breakthrough. He explored the connotation of ＂self＇ from the relation self with mankind, time, nature and God. Self was always undying not only in body but also in soul. The relations among people were the foundation of self, which possessed boundless time and measureless space and which could come true through rotation of nature in perpetuity and be flow of empathy in perpetuity.
文摘Re-examined from the principles of Deep Ecology initiated by Arne Naess,Walt Whitman’s treatment of his 16 poems under the title of“Children of Adam”towards nature violates sustainability and the harmony between man and nature.First of all,the elitism of the new Adam is far away from the man-in-environment image advocated by Deep Ecology.Second,the unrestrained seed-spreading that Whitman boosts in his“spermatic trope”doesn’t take into account the rights to subsistence of myriad species of life and women’s right of choice.Third,in Whitman’s eyes,nature is lack of diversity and richness and his“omnisexual vision”has overlooked the diverse values of nature in themselves.
