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Despite their many differences of temperament and of literary perspective, E
Despite their many differences of temperament and of literary perspective, E
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Despite their many differences of temperament and of literary perspective, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman share certain beliefs. Common to all these writers is their humanistic perspective. Its basic premises are that humans are the spiritual center of the universe and that in them alone is the clue to nature, history, and ultimately the cosmos itself. Without denying outright the existence either of a deity or of brute matter, this perspective nevertheless rejects them as exclusive principles of interpretation and prefers to explain humans and the world in terms of humanity itself. This preference is expressed most clearly in the Transcendentalist principle that the structure of the universe literally duplicates the structure of the individual self; therefore, all knowledge begins with self-knowledge. This common perspective is almost always universalized. Its emphasis is not upon the individual as a particular European or American, but upon the human as universal, freed from the accidents of time, space, birth, and talent. Thus, for Emerson, the "American Scholar" turns out to be simply" Man thinking"; while, for Whitman, the "Song of Myself" merges imperceptible into a song of all the "children of Adam, "where" every atom belonging to ale as good belongs to you." Also common to all five writers is the belief that individual virtue and happiness depend upon selfrealization, which, in turn, depends upon the harmonious reconciliation of two universal psychological tendencies: first, the self- asserting impulse of the individual to withdraw, to remain unique and separate, and to be responsible only to himself or herself, and second, the self-transcending impulse of the individual to embrace the whole world in the experience of a single moment and to know and become one with that world. These conflicting impulses can be seen in the democratic ethic. Democracy advocates individualism, the preservation of the individual’s freedom and self-expressi0n. But the democratic self is torn between the duty to self, which is implied by the concept of liberty, and the duty to society, Which is implied by the concepts of equality and fraternity.
A third assumption common to the five writers is that intuition and imagination offer a surer road to truth than does abstract logic or scientific method. It is illustrated by their emphasis upon introspection -- their belief that the clue to external nature is to be found in the inner world of individual psychology -- and by their interpretation of experience as, in essence, symbolic. Both these stresses presume an organic relationship between the self and the cosmos of which only intuition and imagination can properly take account. These writers’ faith in the imagination and in themselves as practitioners or imagination led them to conceive of the writer as a seer and enabled them to achieve supreme confidence in their own moral and metaphysical insights. [br] The author quotes Whitman primarily in order to ______.
选项
A、show that the poet does not agree with Emerson
B、indicate the way the poet uses the humanist ideal to praise himself
C、suggest that the poet adapts the basic premises of humanism to his own individual outlook on the world
D、illustrate a way the poet expresses the relationship of the individual to the humanistic universe
答案
D
解析
文章第一段最后一句话引证惠特是为了证明第一段的主题,即五人对于个人与“人文宇宙”之间关系的共同看法,所以正确答案为D项。
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