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1、从星空到草叶:分析爱默生与惠特曼诗歌的不同from stars to summer grass comparison between poems of emerson and whitmanabstract :based on the poems of emerson and whitman , this paper centers around the two transcendentalists different opinions on the relationship of nature and human beings. the author analyses the differe
2、nce from three aspects : the way of understanding nature , the way of treating the sanctity of nature and the opinions on modernization.key words: emerson ; whitman ; transcendentalism ; nature and human beings“ if a man would be alone , let him look at the stars. the rays that come from those heave
3、nly worlds will separate between him and what he touches ,” wrote ralph waldo emerson in his essay nature (1836). almost two decades later , walt whitman published the first edition of leaves of grass(1855), in which he says“ilean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summergrass. ” for whitman, nature is no longer something “ always present but inaccessible ” like the stars ; it is the summergrass that can be closely observed. the two different ways to study and understand nature reflect