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  • Comment on Brute Neighbors 1-9 by Kera Gillette
    Posted in: ENGL 340 S24 Geneseo In reply to Shannon Corbett. This was very similar to my thought process going into the reading this passage. I was at first unsure if this conversation was a real person conversing with Thoreau or if it was supposed to be a sort of social commentary on the nature […]
  • Comment on Brute Neighbors 10-18 by Cooper Fensterstock
    Posted in: ENGL 340 S24 Geneseo "They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens." During Thoreau's composition process, this passage might have evolved as he spent more time observing the wildlife around Walden Pond. His deep connection to nature, despite his isolation from people, […]
  • Comment on Brute Neighbors 1-9 by Shannon Corbett
    Posted in: ENGL 340 S24 Geneseo Thoreau refers to being "hermit" however there is many times in certain passages where he describes how he isn't necessarily alone. We discussed in class how he explains that he isn't always alone and this can be a foreshadow of the his further composition process.
  • Comment on House-Warming 1-9 by Cole Donley
    Posted in: ENGL 340 S24 Geneseo Thoreau's dream of a simple, communal house in "House-Warming" reflects his desire to return to a simpler way of life. He defines this imagined house as a location where people may freely travel and engage, as opposed to society's artificial regulations of society. This makes me wonder how Thoreau's […]
  • Comment on Brute Neighbors 1-9 by Serena Drobnack
    Posted in: ENGL 340 S24 Geneseo This whole conversation between the poet and the hermit is very interesting and I wonder what made Thoreau decide to include it. One theory I have is that it's Thoreau talking with himself, as his hermit side and his poet side. It reads like internal dialogue which is somewhat […]