Ralph Waldo Emerson (1802- 1882) was the leader of the American Renaissance (1835- 1865) and the spokesman of European romanticism in the United States. He pointed out the direction for the ideological movement in America at that time. His thoughts are summarized in his transcendentalism. The basic starting point of transcendentalism is to oppose authority, advocate intuition, and advocate that people can go beyond feeling and reason and directly know the truth, that is, directly know the truth from nature. Get the true meaning of life. This paper discusses Emerson's view of nature and the poems that embody this view of nature. First, Emerson was born in Concord, near Boston, Massachusetts. Influenced by culture since childhood, he developed the habit of thinking. Although he grew up in a church family, when he was studying at Harvard University, he read the works of British romantic writers and thinkers such as Coleridge, Wordsworth and Carlisle. And deeply influenced by their thoughts. After graduating from college, Emerson became a priest, but he resolutely gave up his teaching job because he could not accept many superstitious elements in the only Methodist Sect. 1832,65438+At the end of February, he traveled across the ocean to Europe to find a way out, met Carlisle and Wordsworth, and later became lifelong friends with Carlisle. Return to China at 1833.