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- Comment on Economy 15-29 by BryanPosted in: ENGL 340 S25 Geneseo In reply to Haley Hoyt. This quote really emphasizes the importance of humility in the pursuit of knowledge. Thoreau further extends the meaning of this quote, advising us to be humble and reject the knowledge assumed to be part status quo and question what is often accepted to be […]
- Comment on Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 1-12 by BryanPosted in: Choate RH 2025 [This was an airy and unplastered cabin, fit to entertain a travelling god, and where a goddess might trail her garments. The winds which passed over my dwelling were such as sweep over the ridges of mountains, bearing the broken strains, or celestial parts only, of terrestrial music. The morning […]
- 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 […]
