Liberty's Sail at Walden Pond: a Study of Thoreau's Prose Poetics
by Sun Xiao
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This book explains Thoreau's poetics of freedom from the perspectives of romantic poetics, realist poetics and transcendentalist poetics. The author believes that Thoreau explored the realm of life and spirit freedom in the freedom in the wilderness world, the freedom in moral society, and the freedom in religious experience, and formed his unique view of freedom in the natural system. Thoreau's poetics of freedom is a product of the romantic era and the result of his poetic philosophical thinking, with a strong utopian color. Thoreau used poetic wisdom to describe an eternally free "Walden Pond", constructing a spiritual home for human beings to live in poetically in this "absurd" world.
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The Sail of Liberty at Walden Pond: A Study of Thoreau's Prose Poetics - Book Review
Thoreau explored the realm of life and spirit in the wilderness world, moral society, and religious experience, and formed a natural view of freedom. Thoreau's view of freedom has a strong utopian color. He used poetic wisdom to describe an eternally free "Walden Pond", which provided a new attempt for mankind to build a poetic spiritual home in this "absurd" world.
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The Sail of Liberty at Walden Pond: A Study of Thoreau's Prose Poetics - Book Review
Thoreau explored the realm of life and spirit in the wilderness world, moral society, and religious experience, and formed a natural view of freedom. Thoreau's view of freedom has a strong utopian color. He used poetic wisdom to describe an eternally free "Walden Pond", which provided a new attempt for mankind to build a poetic spiritual home in this "absurd" world.
