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
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.
