Henry_David_Thoreau.ppt

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817?– May 6,1862)  American essayist, poet, naturalist, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist The beautiful Walden (Picture 1) The beautiful Walden (Picture 2) Walden (Picture 3) Walden (Picture 4) Teaching Contents Biographical Introduction His Major Works His Influence in the World Appreciating “Where I lived, and What I Lived for” from Walden Comparative Studies: a. Thoreau Emerson b. Thoreau Tao yuanming c. Thoreau’s Idea Chinese Traditional Ideas Biographical Introduction Birth place: Born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817 Education Experience: studied at Harvard University(1833 and 1837). His relationship with Emerson: Emerson’s truest disciple and friends. Residence at Walden Pond: in 1845, he began to take a two-year-residence at Walden Pond Thoreau was a protester as well. Disapproved of the government’s conduct of the Mexican War by refusing to pay his poll tax（人头税. (was sent to jail 1 night). In 1835, he contracted Tuberculosis and suffered from it afterwards. He died in 1862 and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Major Works Most famous essay: Walden(1854) 18 parts Economy Where I Lived, and What I Lived for. Reading Sounds Solitude Visitors … Spring Conclusion Civil Disobedience (1849) Another famous essay: Civil Disobedience (1849) 论公民的不服从 this is from his staying in Concord jail for a night because he disapproved of slavery and the government’s conduct of the Mexican War Throeau’s Influence in the World Thoreaus writings influenced many public figures. Political leaders and reformers like Mahatma Gandhi, President John F. Kennedy, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. Russian author Leo Tolstoy William Butler Yeats, Ernest Hemingway, Critical Responses American poet Robert Frost wrote of Thoreau, In one book ... he surpasses everything we have had in America. Poet John Greenleaf Whittier criticized what he perceived as the message in Walden t