Analysis Of Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Where I Lived For

In “Walden, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” (1924), Henry David Thoreau claims people should have sufficient resources and live a simple life. Thoreau illustrates his claim by comparing his riches to someone who wasn’t as wealthy as him and also by defining what people think reality is, “ I found thus that I had been a rich man without any damage to my poverty.” and “ Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through Church and State, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake; and then begin, having a point d'appui,(27) below freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might found a wall or a state, or set a lamp-post safely, or perhaps a gauge, not a Nilometer,(28) but a Realometer, that future ages might know how deep a freshet of shams and appearances had gathered from time to time.” Thoreau uses the woods to make metaphors out of it “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” meaning as the stream flows
Time and childhood comes intact with we can make our lives simple. Thoreau addresses that people should find something more meaningful “...it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the