美国文学课件4The Literature of the Romantic Period 2教材课程.ppt

Chapter 3;Study Questions (p38);Agenda ;1. The summit of American Romanticism;;Born Bad or Good?;Ⅱ. The Transcendentalists;American Transcendentalism began with the formation in 1836 of the Transcendental Club in Boston. Magazine: The Dial (日晷) Brook Farm: communal living experiment Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau;1. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882);“Nature always wears the color of the spirit.” Ralph Waldo Emerson;Emerson’s “transparent eyeball” in Nature (p 40);;2. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862); “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life…” ;;REPLICA OF THOREAU’S CABIN;Discussions about some ideas in Thoreau’s Walden 1. Did Thoreau ever buy a farm? Why did he enjoy the act of buying? (p43-44);2.“I would not have anyone adopt my mode of living, each should find out his own way, not his neighbor’s or his parents.” “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”;;Assignments