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- Comment on Winter Animals by Adanna WolfPosted in: ENGL 340 S25 Geneseo [For sounds in winter nights, and often in winter days, I heard the forlorn but melodious note of a hooting owl indefinitely far; such a sound as the frozen earth would yield if struck with a suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula of Walden Wood, and quite familiar to […]
- Comment on Winter Animals by Haley HoytPosted in: ENGL 340 S25 Geneseo [WHEN the ponds were firmly frozen, they afforded not only new and shorter routes to many points, but new views from their surfaces of the familiar landscape around them.] I really liked this description of the pond in winter because I live on a hill of a very small […]
- Comment on Winter Animals by Paul SchachtPosted in: ENGL 340 S25 Geneseo The Fair Haven Thoreau is referring to (and that he mentions elsewhere in Walden) is in the vicinity of Walden Pond. Thoreau does mention New York a number of times in Walden, though. One of these mentions is in "Brute Neighbors," paragraph 17. What's interesting there is that in the […]
- Comment on Winter Animals by hollandjeannettePosted in: ENGL 340 S25 Geneseo When Thoreau mentions "Fair Haven" is this the same one in New York?
- Comment on Winter Animals by Michael CrowleyPosted in: ENGL 340 S25 Geneseo This passage reminds me of my home and upbringing in nature. There is a pear tree in my yard that the squirrels and birds love to feed on. The squirrels do much of the labor, knocking down the pears and eating most of them. Then, other creatures like rabbits […]
