Investigation of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David's and Herman Melville's Views of Nature

This paper is aimed at interpreting Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Herman Melville’s view of nature clearly by briefly analyzing their representative works. And this paper is composed of four parts. Chapter Ⅰ will make a detailed analysis of Emerson’s view of nature and make a further investigation of his view by analyzing his work Nature.Chapter Ⅱ is about Thoreau’s view of nature and his attitude to nature through his work Walden. Chapter Ⅲ firstly makes a brief introduction of Melville’s view of nature and then interprets it by explaining the symbolic meaning of main characters’ names in his famous work Moby-Dick. And the last chapter makes a simple comparison among their views of nature to give a further understanding of the view of nature in American Literature.