On Appreciating Lakes and Ponds: Thoreau’s <i>Walden</i>

Jingdong Zhong

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On Appreciating Lakes and Ponds: Thoreau’s Walden

Jingdong Zhong

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This paper attempts to supply an aesthetic approach to interpreting lake writing. Based on the studies of the philosophical and aesthetic connotations of lakes and ponds, the paper explores the sequence of Thoreau’s aesthetic experience at the Walden through close-in reading of some pieces of lake writing in Walden, which is probably concerned with the “seeing” modes of the reflection of Mirrors and Youguan. This paper arrives at a conclusion that the adoption of such aesthetic modes may help to further the comprehension of Walden while give some implications for the interpretation of other nature writings.

Published in	Science Innovation (Volume 4, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.si.20160404.11
Page(s)	172-176
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Lakes and Ponds, Appreciating, The Reflection of Mirrors, Youguan, Thoreau, Walden

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Jingdong Zhong

English Faculty, Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages, Shaoxing, China

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