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  • 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 […]
  • Comment on Spring 14-26 by Fiona Green
    Posted in: ENGL 340 S26 Geneseo I absolutely love this paragraph and think the idea of every new day being a fresh start is incredibly important. So many people get stuck in a loop of negativity, letting the weight of one bad day spill into the next. The ability to let go, reset, and start […]
  • Comment on Spring 1-13 by Avery
    Posted in: ENGL 340 S26 Geneseo Thoreau's description and metaphorical use of the pond conveys many themes about change and how even the most stable of, the most set in our ways, can have our perspectives, values, and ideas altered. Thoreau really emphasizes a sort of cycle here with the pond as it thunders in […]
  • Comment on Spring 14-26 by Jaidyn
    Posted in: ENGL 340 S26 Geneseo [ We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past […]
  • Comment on Spring 14-26 by Paul Schacht
    Posted in: ENGL 340 S26 Geneseo In reply to Elizabeth Clodfelter. @ekclodfelter: I take him to mean both—that is, the particular robin sitting on a particular twig that he heard on a particular summer day.