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  • Comment on Conclusion 1-9 by Paul Schacht
    Posted in: ENGL 340 S26 Geneseo In reply to Fiona Green. I'm so glad you feel this way about Walden, @fbgreen! You make what I think is a really important point about the way people can allow their lives to be directed by what others think of them. It's not a new problem, and Thoreau […]
  • Comment on Spring 1-13 by Paul Schacht
    Posted in: ENGL 340 S26 Geneseo In reply to Avery. @averyw: I love how you bring so many important strands together here: Walden Pond as a metaphor in some ways for Thoreau himself; the pond's natural cycles as an example of the many cycles that pervade life, Nature, and the universe; and the idea that […]
  • Comment on Winter Animals by Paul Schacht
    Posted in: General Discussion In reply to Deborah Tirone. @tirone: Whether or not Thoreau was thinking of his own effort at self-realization in describing the foxes, it's easy to see a parallel. I like your idea. I think it's interesting, too, that at first the foxes aspire to be dogs, and then, in the next […]
  • Comment on Winter Animals by Deborah Tirone
    Posted in: General Discussion The Chapter "Winter Animals", and especially paragraph four make me wonder if in Thoreau's descriptions of the sounds and activity of the animals, he was really describing his own emotions "... as if laboring with some anxiety, or seeking expression, struggling for light ..." and his views on humankind "... awaiting […]
  • Comment on Conclusion 1-9 by Fiona Green
    Posted in: ENGL 340 S26 Geneseo In this paragraph, Thoreau urges readers to “advance confidently in the direction of their dreams” and to live deliberately, even if their path looks unconventional. This echoes the message he introduced much earlier in “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” where he talks about stripping life down […]