Berniece Alspach
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@longwalkerbadger There are lots of comments here that have been posted by students and teachers but that you won’t see because they’ve been posted in private groups. It would be great to see more comments in this […]
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Peyton Bell posted an update 7 months ago
“House-Warming” reminds the reader of a very important caveat to Thoreau’s overall prescription of a slower and more thoughtful life spent in nature: one must devote oneself to some hard work in order to enjoy a fuller sort of peace. Henry David Thoreau marks himself as starkly disapproving of the working man’s toilsome devotion to his wage. H…[Read more]
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Jordyn McClellan posted an update 7 months ago
The labor of one’s hands is more satisfying than the transactional, robotic, futile work done in society. While Thoreau’s unfinished homely house hardly offers protection from the elements, he believes it is “fit to entertain a traveling god.” He describes it as “saturated with dew” and an “airy look” to say that it fits within “the poem of cr…[Read more]
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Lani posted an update 7 months ago
a. While I agree with many of the ideas that Thoreau presents in this essay, I also think that in a lot of ways he takes his ideas too far. It is very true that people are enslaved to the idea that they need to own things, and it causes them to work their lives away. While I would agree that it’s bad that people can get so obsessed with the m…[Read more]
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Avery Warren posted an update 7 months ago
There is a certain pressure upon each human in this world that we must grow up to be led into the workforce, where we become part of the machine. Some of us may be lucky enough to reach retirement and enjoy the final 10 to 20 years of life stuck at home, as our old age keeps us from exploring the beauty of nature that awaits outside and will be…[Read more]
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Gabby Uttz posted an update 7 months, 1 week ago
Solitude is an extremely prominent theme throughout Walden’s essays. This essay, named “Solitude” is no exception. Thoreau walks us through his routine of solitude, walking and listening to the sounds of nature while calming himself to reach this state of mind that he calls solitude. The irony of this essay is that the solitude prepares him for t…[Read more]
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