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  • Comment on The Ponds 18-34 by Alireza Taghdarreh
    Posted in: Emerson-Thoreau SUNY Geneseo This is a very magically strange characteristic for a mirror. Mirrors are supposed to reflect all the impurities presented to them back to the presenter, that is to the one who is standing before them. In a most subtle way, Thoreau shows us here that Walden is not just for […]
  • Comment on Conclusion 1-9 by Stephen Siperstein
    Posted in: Choate RH 2020 This makes me think of Nico's experiment.
  • Comment on Conclusion 1-9 by Stephen Siperstein
    Posted in: Choate RH 2020 Yes, and while he's moving on, there's something circular about the journey.  Migration is about repeating patterns, ingrained over time. So is the seasons (even if climate change is disrupting those cycles) -- and Walden takes the seasons cycle as one of its literary organizing principles.
  • Comment on Conclusion 1-9 by Esther An
    Posted in: Choate RH 2020 [It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you.] I think people are often afraid of silence and any semblance of discomfort, especially in social contexts. A lot of the time we censor and edit what we say – […]
  • Comment on Conclusion 1-9 by Denis Seli
    Posted in: Choate RH 2020 This paragraph is making a very interesting claim. I think he is basically saying that we ("current" people) aren't as intellectually sophisticated as people of the past, but that's okay. He says "a living dog is better than a dead lion". The mere fact that we're alive puts us above […]

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