The Readers' Thoreau | Michelle Switzer | Activity

Michelle Switzer commented on the post, Solitude, on the site Walden

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 01:12:31 -0500

I am glad that Thoreau got rid of the extra part that was in Version A. I think that his comparisons are good enough without having to go one step further, closer to the edge that readers wouldn’t want to continue […]

Michelle Switzer commented on the post, Solitude, on the site Walden

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 01:08:55 -0500

I also find it interesting that he would write such things about his neighbors and visitors in the chapter titled “solitude”. Thoreau probably understood that solitude was for him, and the visitors and neighbors […]

Michelle Switzer commented on the post, Conclusion 1-9, on the site Walden

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:59:43 -0500

To answer your question, I don’t think Thoreau knew he wanted to write a conclusion until he had edited it. I think, with a writer with such thoughts as his, he never was fully completed, or satisfied with his […]

Michelle Switzer commented on the post, Spring 1-13, on the site Walden

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:45:44 -0500

Thank you for sharing that with us! I definitely had no idea that these paragraphs were added into the original text. These do add to the text as a whole as he is explaining, in full detail, the newness of spring. […]

Michelle Switzer became a registered member

Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:54:16 -0500