Analysis Of Walden By Henry David Thoreau

The mention of “Walden Pond” in stanza three by the white woman is linked in the Indian’s mind to “there are five Walden Ponds on my little reservation out West and at least a hundred more surrounding Spokane,” in stanza four. These larger images once again demonstrate the incapability of the white Americans to look deeper into other cultures and their sites surrounding them. The only reason the white woman recognizes Walden Pond is because it was made famous by a white American, Henry David Thoreau who wrote a book about his life in a house next to the pond, in which he takes on a simplistic life which mimics the Native American Indian life style. The Indian on the train, is unimpressed by this because he states that “I know the Indians were living stories around that pond before Walden's grandparents were born and before his grandparents' grandparents were born.”These lines display a certain amount of disdain by the Indian for what the white Americans believe to be historically important it

We can’t live without nature. It’s our home and way of life. Henry David Thoreau wrote a piece about Walden Pond in the springtime. Thoreau discusses how nature has so much to offer. His use of anaphora, diction, and imagery helps to show not only his love for nature, but the impact it has on us.

A Comparison of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Beliefs concerning Simplicity, the Value and Potential of Our Soul, and Our Imagination.Henry David Thoreau tests Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ideas about nature by living at Walden Pond, where he discovers that simplicity in physical aspects brings deepness to our mind, our soul to its fullest potential, and our imagination to be uplifted to change our lives. These two men believe that nature is what forces us not to depend on others’ ideas but to develop our own. Nature is ever changing so we must keep searching for explanations about human life. They feel that nature is the key to knowing all.Thoreau lives at Walden Pond to find the true meaning of life. He wants to experience

Throughout “Solitude,” Thoreau uses a wide variety of rhetorical devices and complex diction to support his claims. Some of those rhetorical devices include: personification, simile, and rhetorical questions. These writing tools help Thoreau convey his message of living in solitude and self-reliance in nature. Thoreau uses massive amounts of complex diction throughout his writing.

1. “For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, where it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to “glorify God and enjoy him forever.” P.383 What is the “it” that Thoreau is referring to when he says people are in a strange uncertainty about “it” AND what does the rest of the quote in mean?

Further more, famous writers Thoreau and Emerson emphasize the idea of solitude with nature and how living in nature can help one have “maximum brain function” and many other desirable attributes. They also believe that modern day technology has hindered people's ability to be one with nature and to communicate with others. This summer, my dad challenged my cousins and me to get off our electronics and try something new. In the middle of July, my dad and my uncle took my cousins and me to the redwood forests of California to spend a week camping. As that week continued, we partook in many activities, ranging from swimming in the lake, to sitting around a fire at night telling stories to one another. During this time, I was very relaxed and stress free, not worrying about anything and my only concern was spending quality time with my family. In Walden, written by Thoreau, he writes that “[t]ime is but a stream I go fishing in,” (7). As time went by during that week, we did not track the time as often as we usually do, we did not rush to finish certain tasks, and we did not need

“Walden” is a mixture of arbitration upon nature, autobiography, and philosophy. In around 1845 Thoreau began his experience in “fundamental” living and studying the world and seeking certainty within himself. “Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than ten fingers or in extreme case he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand; instead or a million count a half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail” (Thoreau 383). Thoreau’s antidote for chaotic, detail-crowded life is to keep problems and stress to a minimum. He states that simplicity is what life is about and having a simple life is a better life. Also when he says, “our life is frittered away by detail” it’s stating that society always looks at the details and material things and that's its okay to get away from that and have a simple life. “I left the woods for as good of reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves” (Thoreau 388). Thoreau’s reason for leaving the pond is that after a while he made a routine for

Yes, Thoreau may have been condescending, scolding, and judgmental, but these traits don’t reflect on the quality of Thoreau’s writing. Reading “Walden” isn’t for everyone, nor is Thoreau’s lifestyle. Thoreau writes as though he lived in the middle of nowhere while he truly lived a half an hour walk from the town. Conversely this idea of isolation Thoreau portrays for himself doesn’t dispute the ideas and philosophy in “Walden”.

In Thoreau’s novel, Walden, the reader is introduced to Thoreau’s world and how it is greatly impacted by location. Thoreau begins his project by moving away from civilization and searching for a place to live. He finds his temporary home at Walden Pond, where he starts with few resources and little outside inputs. Thoreau even has to borrow the axe that he uses to cut down trees to make his home for the next two years. Thoreau asserts that his experiment, moving to Walden Pond, is not permanent. Walden Pond is, however, the foundation precept of how location impacts one’s way of life. The place one live shapes the way one live and how one interact with the world around oneself.

Within the “Conclusion,” of Walden, Thoreau is describing why he left when he uses the quote, “How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!” Within this quote, he is discussing how within only a few days of arriving at the Walden Pond, his treks had made a path through the woods. So, he is pondering how if he can have that kind of impact within only a few days, what kind of impact the rest of the world has in heavily traveled areas. The second part of the quote proceeds into a comparison to society. Thoreau compares the path he has created in the ground to the way society has shaped the behaviors of people over generations. As a transcendentalist, he is encouraging non-conformity.

Thoreau and White both use descriptive language in their writing. Thoreau's writing style is serious and straightforward, like reading a diary. Thoreau's description is of serenity as he explains his view of the pond and the woods. When Thoreau talks about the lake being a valuable neighbor in the intervals of a gentle rain in August, when both air and water are being perfectly still, but the sky overcast, mid afternoon had all the serenity of evening. His description of Walden Pond makes you want to escape there. Thoreau lives his life with simplicity in harmony with nature, and is not dependent on mechanical aids.

The summer of 1845 found Henry David Thoreau living in a rude shack on the banks of Walden Pond. The actual property was owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great American philosopher. Emerson had earlier published the treatise entitled "Nature," and the young Thoreau was profoundly affected by its call for individuality and self-reliance. Thoreau planted a small garden, took pen and paper, and began to record the of life at Walden.

At the start of chapter 5, “Solitude,” Thoreau is describing the wind and the surface of the lake as night comes upon it. “Sympathy with the fluttering alder and poplar leaves almost takes away my breath; yet, like the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled. These small waves raised by the evening wind are as remote from storm as the smooth reflecting surface” Walden. He uses a simile to make comparisons that create visual imagery. The journal is a fascinating read, because he uses the imagination within realism.

Henry David Thoreau wrote, Walden and Other Writings as a reflection of his life there in an effort to explore his inner self while living a humble life surrounded by nature. He lived for over two years in a cabin near Walden Pond, which provided a sanctuary for him to “live deliberately” (Thoreau), or simple, and avoid being burdened with supporting the lifestyle encouraged by the trappings of what was then the demands of a modern existence.

Henry David Thoreau begins his novel of Walden with giving a brief summary on where he is, and the philosophy on why he is there. He also describes how he feels about the people in the society and how he will be narrating the novel. In the first few paragraphs he explains how society judges him about his actions on moving out onto the pond. Thoreau makes clear that this is not a permanent lifestyle, but an experiment on life as a whole. Henry David Thoreau explains that people feel like they have to live up to a hidden standard, and that people feel they must own certain things and have certain quantities of other things. He points out that all this does is add worry and trouble to people and that people are wasting valuable life and