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EMERSON’S AESTHETICS
Emerson believes that good poetry and true art should reach, serve as a moral purification.
Emerson emphasizes ideas, symbols and imaginative words.
He advocated that American writer…
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EMERSON’S INFLUENCE
Emerson’s importance in the intellectual history of America lies in the fact that he embodied a new
nation’s desire and struggle to assert its own identity in its formative period.
His aesthetics brought about revolution…
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Thoreau is significant as a naturalist who emphasized the dynamic ecology of the natural world. Above all,
Thoreau’s quiet, one-man revolution is living at Walden..
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SYMBOLS
1. The Pequod.
The Pequod is a symbol of doom. It is painted a gloomy black and covered in whale teeth and
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2. Moby Dick
Moby Dick possesses various symbolic meanings for various individuals.
-Symbol of nature for human beings, because it is mysterious, powerful.
-Symbol of evil for the Captain Ahab.
-Symbol of good and purity because of its whiteness.
3. Voyage of the Pequod
Symbol of the pursuit of ideals, adventure and the hunt in the vast wilderness.