瓦尔登湖—梭罗-解析.ppt

Content Henry David Thoreau Walden (1)introduction (2)appreciation Reference Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862) Life and Career Birth: Concord, Massachusetts, July 12, 1817 Education: Harvard (1833-1837) Making pencils; running a private school; meeting with Emerson; delivering speeches; working as a land surveyor In 1845,he began a two-year residence at Walden Pond Death: 1862 Inducted into the Hall of Fame （名人堂）in 1969 Major Works A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1839)《在康科德河和梅里马克河的一周》 “Civil Disobedience” (1849) 《抵制国民政府》 Walden; /Life in the Woods (1854)《瓦尔登湖》 A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859) Excursions (1863)《远足》 The Maine Woods (1864)《缅因森林》 Cape Cod (1865)《科德角》 Transcendentalism A philosophical movement that developed in the 1830s and 1840s in the New England region of the United States as a protest to the general state of culture and society Ideas and Thought Placing emphasis on spirit ,or the oversoul as the most important thing in the universe Stressing the importance of individual Offering a fresh perception of nature as a symbolic of the spirit or God Major figures Ralph Waldo Emerson拉尔夫.瓦尔多.爱默生 Henry David Thoreau亨利.大卫.梭罗 Margaret Fuller 玛格丽特.富勒 Amos Bronson Alcott 奥尔科特 Theodore Parker. 帕克 Walden Pictures Walden Published in 1854 Recounting the two years and two months Thoreau spent at Walden Pond from 1845 to 1847 Compressing 26 months into a single year, with the passage of four seasons to symbolize human development collection of 18 essays Theme a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings part of personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self reliance emphasizes the importance of solitude, contemplation, and closeness to nature in transcending the desperate existence mainly express