文档介绍：Nature
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“nature” in American Literature
Appreciation of famous sentences
Language features and rhetoric devices
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Nature
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spiritual refuge
In fact, in American literature, "nature" has always been an important theme. The relationship between man and nature has been the center of attention of many American writers. Owing to history, culture and natural environment, American literature has a long tradition of describing nature, from the colonial period to today, and even formed a special  American naturalist literature.
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nature
spiritual refuge (early 17th c)
the shadow of the spiritual world (18th c)
the background of
people’s behavior and activity (19th c)
the symbol of spirit (19th c)
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spiritual refuge (early 17th c)
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the shadow of the spiritual world (18th c)
The Images and Shadows of Divine Things
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spiritual refuge
the background of
people’s behavior and activity (19th c)
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spiritual refuge
the symbol of spirit (19th c)
In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word in both senses; -- in its common and in its philosophical import. In inquiries so general as our present one, the inaccuracy is not material; no confusion of thought will occur. Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man; space, the air, the river, the leaf. Art is applied to the mixture of his will with the same things, as in a house, a canal, a statue, a picture.
—Introduction
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爱默生在《论自然》的导言中是这样界定“自然”的：“我将在两种意义上使用‘自然’一词：既在估量本身的价值的意义上，也在描述自然的规模的意 义上。——既在它的普通意义上也在它的哲学意义上。……在普通意义上，自然是指未被人改变其本质特征的事物，如空间、空气、河流、植物的叶子等等。而人工则是由人的意志与自然事物的汇合而成，这种合成表现为一座房子、一 条运河、一尊雕塑、一幅图画等等。”
the symbol of spirit (19th c)
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