In Thoreau's account of his time at Walden Pond, he insists that it is only in Nature that a person can really find himself. The pressures of society life impose too much responsibility and frivolity onto a person, so retreating into Nature allows for a person to free his mind and his soul long enough to discover what is essential.
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
Here, Thoreau insists that one must connect to the earth and allow one's self to be influenced by this connection. It is only in doing so that we learn to live in harmony with the circumstances of our lives and grow able to overcome the changes that happen around us at all times.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
And here, in these famous lines from Walden, Thoreau is saying that it is only in Nature, removed from society, that he believed he could truly live. Being in Nature forced him to confront what his real requirements were for living, and this minimalism allowed him to explore himself more fully.
Monday, August 8, 2016
What is the relationship between the Self and Nature in Walden Pond by Thoreau ?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Why is the fact that the Americans are helping the Russians important?
In the late author Tom Clancy’s first novel, The Hunt for Red October, the assistance rendered to the Russians by the United States is impor...
-
There are a plethora of rules that Jonas and the other citizens must follow. Again, page numbers will vary given the edition of the book tha...
-
The poem contrasts the nighttime, imaginative world of a child with his daytime, prosaic world. In the first stanza, the child, on going to ...
-
Lionel Wallace is the subject of most of "The Door in the Wall" by H.G. Wells. The narrator, Redmond, tells about Wallace's li...
-
In the late author Tom Clancy’s first novel, The Hunt for Red October, the assistance rendered to the Russians by the United States is impor...
-
Robinson Crusoe, written by Daniel Defoe, is a novel. A novel is a genre defined as a long imaginative work of literature written in prose. ...
-
"The Wife's Story" by Ursula Le Guin presents a compelling tale that is not what it initially seems. The reader begins the sto...
-
In Celie's tenth letter to God, she describes seeing her daughter in a store with a woman. She had not seen her daughter since the night...
No comments:
Post a Comment