Walden__or_Life_in_the_Woods外国文学赏析.doc

Walden -a book teaching people to enjoy lifeThis is a fresh, healthy, interesting and progressive books, spring, dawn, there are descriptions of the most touching. Here nature gives the clear air without environmental pollution of industrial society. Read it, readers will feel the purity of the soul, the spirit of sublimation。Book InformationWalden .Henry David Thoreau,author.Princeton University Press, Princeton&Oxford,2004. Special FeaturesWalden opens with a simple announcement that Thoreau spent two years in Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, living a simple life supported by no one. He says that he now resides among the civilized again; the episode was clearly both experimental and temporary.Walden is a book quietly, very quiet very quiet, not home.It is a lonely book, a book alone.Its just a book one.If your heart is not quiet, Im afraid its hard to enter into the book.I want to tell you is that after your heart calm down, you will be thinking about something.When what you think about some questions, you can be with the Mr Henry David Thoreau, together, think about yourself, more thinking about higher principle.Book SummaryWalden (first published as Walden; or,Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854,it details Thoreaus sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond,amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson,near Concord,Massachusetts. Thoreau lived at Walden for two years,two months,and two days,but Walden was written so that the stay appears to be a year,with expressed seasonal divisions. Thoreau did not intend to live as a hermit,for he received visitors and returned their visits. Instead,he hoped to isolate himself from society in order to gain a more objective understanding of it. Simplicity and self-reliance were Thoreaus other goals,and the whole project was inspired by Transcendentalist philosophy. However the house was not in wilderness but at the edge of town,1.5 miles (2.4 km) from his family home,and his mother cooked him meals and cleaned the house.IntroductionThis is a book of quiet, indifferent, full of wisdom，Analysis of life, critical practices, amazing language , the word flash, maverick, thought provoking.Many page image is depicting, beautiful detail, like lake water pure and transparent, like dense green Woods; also some page argument thoroughly, very insightful, give people enlightenment. Author EvaluationGraduated from Harvard University,Helped Emerson editor review quarterly halo.Writing with mang political comments,he was opposed to the United States and Mexicos war and supported the abolitionist movement for life time.His thought influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson deeply and advocated that returning to own heart and closing to the nature.Thoreau Known as the creator of the nature of essays ,having created more than twenty essays.The Walden in American literature is acknowledged as the most popular with readers of fiction.Text and Character AnalysisText Analysis:This book is Thoreau Walden Pond in the forest for two years and two months and two days of life and thought on the record, he has his own farm, self-sufficient, though a man away from the society, the seclusion of the wood, but life is everywhere.Walden is a book quietly, very quiet very quiet, not home.It is a lonely book, a book alone.Its just a book one.Some examples are:Character Analysis:Henry David Thoreau - freedom-loving,lonely, independent, lover of solitude and poetic.For example:Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity,and I may say innocence,with Nature herself.My house was on the side of a young forest of pitch pines and hickories,and half a dozen rods from the pond,to which a narrow footpath led down the hill.Angelo a resplendent light appeared over the shadow of his head at morning and evening,whether he was in Italy or France,and it was particularly conspicuous when the grass was moist with dew.“And here a poet builded In the completed year For behold a trivial cabin That to destruction steers.”-a poet in the WaldenThemeSelf-reliance thus refers not just to paying ones own bills, but also more philosophically to the way the natural world and humankind rely on the self to exist. This duality explains the connection between Thoreau the accountant and Thoreau the poet, and shows why the man who is so interested in pinching pennies is the same man who exults lyrically over a partridge or a winter sky. They are both products of self-reliance, since the economizing that allows Thoreau to live on Walden Pond also allows him to feel one with nature, to feel as though it is part of his own soul.Simplicity is more than a mode of life for Thoreau; it is a philosophical ideal as well. Another irony of Thoreaus simplification campaign is that his literary style, while concise, is far from simple. It contains witticisms, double meanings, and puns that are not at all the kind of New England deadpan literalism that might pass for literary simplicity. Despite its minimalist message, Walden is an elevated text that would have been much more accessible to educated city-dwellers than to the predominantly uneducated country-dwellers.Praises Abound for Walden*Walden inspired the 1948 novel Walden Two by psychologist B.F. Skinner.* Walden Three,a non-profit educational foundation that promotes sustainable societies,takes its name from the book.* In the early years of the Doonesbury comic strip,the main characters lived in a commune they named Walden Puddle,a reference to Walden Pond and a note of Thoreaus influence on the student