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- Comment on Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 13-23 by lkahuPosted in: ENGL 340 S25 Geneseo In reply to Aubrey. Hi Aubrey, I really liked your comment because of how you draw on certain aspects of the Thoreau’s writing like his aspirations and try and connect it to your personal life. However I interpreted this paragraph differently as it awakened me to the tone Thoreau […]
- Comment on Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 1-12 by lkahuPosted in: Choate RH 2025 I think that Thoreau viewed a normal home perhaps in the village to be one that’s stiffiled his desires for the natural world. He said in this new home, he built he didn’t need to go outdoors to take the air which when one thinks about it it must’ve been […]
- Comment on Spring 1-13 by Gabrielle M LaughlinPosted in: ENGL 340 S25 Geneseo [ Leave a comment on paragraph 3 7 One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in. The ice in the pond at length begins to be honey-combed, and I can set my heel in […]
- Comment on Winter Animals by AubreyPosted in: ENGL 340 S25 Geneseo [In dark winter mornings, or in short winter afternoons, I sometimes heard a pack of hounds threading all the woods with hounding cry and yelp, unable to resist the instinct of the chase, and the note of the hunting horn at intervals, proving that man was in the rear.] […]
- Comment on Spring 1-13 by Ashley AmesPosted in: ENGL 340 S25 Geneseo This description reminds me of a pond that we used to visit behind my grandma's house. Thoreau captures the feeling that a witness of what the springtime does to bodies of water feels
