A Study on the Aesthetic Ideology in Carl Sandburg's Nature Poems

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10.2991/essd-18.2018.74How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Carl Sandburg, aesthetic ideology, nature poems, beauty

Abstract

Carl Sandburg was an outstanding modern American poet, many of his poems voice the development of the American society and express and deliver his concern towards the civilians and those poems received a warm welcome from the populace as well as the academic world. However, his nature poems which convey considerable aesthetic thought and which portray grand beauty do not gain much attention from the public. This paper, under the guidance of Denis Diderot’s aesthetic theory-- Beauty Lies in Relation, tries to analyze Carl Sandburg's most artistically designed nature poems, aiming at revealing his aesthetic ideology in three layers: The Internal Relation of a Matter Itself, The Exterior Linkage between Things, and The Other Beauty. Meanwhile, to a certain degree, this paper may expose to the readers the charm of the poems. Hopefully, it will arouse certain interest of other researchers to carry on further studies on his nature verses to bring to readers a more complete picture of this poet and his works.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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