梭罗与爱默生的关系 英美文学

(1817-1862)
1840’s living with Emerson
July 1845- Sept. 1847, living alone in Walden
Pond: a life on his own
One night in jail for refusing to pay $2.00
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Thoreau
Emerson
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14 years younger than Emerson 1840’s living with Emerson.Emerson
encouraged Thoreau as a writer, Friendship went bad in the 1850s
Influences
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Martin Luther King (1929-1968) and others followed his principle in their struggle for independence and human rights
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
life
B. in Concord, Massachusetts,1817, an
intellectual community
1837, journal, a record of his thoughts, his
work and his life
Found connection between self- reliance, meaningful labor, and thought. Civil Disobedience(1849)《论公民的不服从》
During his two- year experiment, Thoreau was arrested for not paying his poll tax, which he had withheld in protest against the Mexican War. Out of his night spent in jail, he wrote Civil Disobedience, questioning which has primacy— the laws of a state or a man’s conscience?
In physical appearance,Thoreau was uncouth or,as Emerson once put it, he was "as ugly as sin,long nosed,queermouthed."
Their Shoulders are both inclined to each side,and they both have long nose,Although Thoreau is neither Emerson's brother nor his son,but it seems a bit of both.
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Difference
华兹华斯指出，梭罗是‘一个对大众说话的人’——他用的是通俗的 口语，也常常说题外话，而且好争辩，喜欢用方言或对话的方式。而爱默生却 是师长作风，说话威严傲慢，滔滔不绝，旁人无从插嘴。”
爱默生只是一味地从长者的角度、导师的角度、 教练的角度 来关怀着扶持着信任着期望着梭罗， 但是他忽略了最基本的一点，那就是梭罗是不是 需 要这一切！尤其是爱默生忘记自己对梭罗最为 欣赏的叛逆精神，而且是一个孤独的叛逆 者，叛 逆社会、叛逆当局、叛逆世俗、叛逆世人，难道 就不叛逆你爱默生？
美国学者斯蒂芬·哈恩在分析爱默生与梭罗的关 系时，说：“无论是就个人而言还 是按理智行事， 梭罗对爱默生的态度都近似于这样一种感觉：不 咬喂食的那只手——即 使咬也至少不那么明显。” 所以，在相当长的一段时间，梭罗与爱默生并未 发生“正面 交锋”。诚如上述那段具体的描述所 显示，梭罗对爱默生的叛逆是以忍让的方式出现， 还包括沉默的方式，爱默生忽视或忽略了梭罗的 忍让与沉默，或将梭罗的忍让与沉默视 为接受的 信息。所以，爱默生心安理得地称“我的亨 利·梭罗”。
Walden(1854) 《瓦尔登湖》
Built a cabin on property owned by Emerson and moved in on 4 July 1845.
Lived economically and comfortably for 26 months, enjoying the freedom of working productively as a writer and a thinker.
Similarities
They were transcendentalists. They loved nature and thought it can purify the human's mind. Their view towards government, although ones opinion may be a bit more "radical" than the other.
“back to nature” 1960’s generation living in the woods: his celebration of nature and his call to “simplify” stirred people to escape the artificiality of a society in the name of social progress