Chapter 5 From Walden Or Life In The Wood, Solitude By Henry David Thoreau
Through out this synthesis paper, we are going to discuss two different types of works; a poem and a text, written by two different transcendentalist authors. Through out this course, we have acquired a high level of understanding about transcendentalism, and discovered numerous transcendentalist authors and studied their way of thinking. Primarily transcendentalism is a system based on an idea that, in order to understand the nature of reality one must first examine and analyze the reasoning process that governs the nature of experience. (ENGL 247, class notes.). The text that I chose to present in class was Chapter 5 From Walden or Life In The Wood, “Solitude”, written by the transcendentalist author Henry David Thoreau.
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They both talk about the importance of nature and simplicity in every person’s life, just like every blade of grass, every blade is as good as the other even though we might think the opposite and the same applies to humans. Nature is used to fuel the human that god has created; when humans die they are ready to become nature. Both authors are trying to tell us how important it is for every one of us to leave our comfort zone and go out to learn and discover the nature this world has to offer us. There is so much surrounding us that we don’t know about, that we are not exposed to through books or teachers, but that we must experience for ourselves. He wants us to feel the greatness in life and appreciate how lucky we are to have been born in this world and make the best out of what has been given to us in this life. Even when we feel that we are one and that each and every one of us is an individual, we all belong to a bigger idea. We are all connected somehow, we originate from the same point and we are all part of this common world. We are all equal and most importantly “ has anyone supposed it to be lucky to be born?” (Song of Myself, p.147). Strong, is how the relationship between humanity and nature should be. We need to give much more value to the natural world. The natural world helps us understand everything that is hard to understand, including ourselves. When a connection happens between the human world and natural world, this is when the natural world becomes
They both talk about the importance of nature and simplicity in every person’s life, just like every blade of grass, every blade is as good as the other even though we might think the opposite and the same applies to humans. Nature is used to fuel the human that god has created; when humans die they are ready to become nature. Both authors are trying to tell us how important it is for every one of us to leave our comfort zone and go out to learn and discover the nature this world has to offer us. There is so much surrounding us that we don’t know about, that we are not exposed to through books or teachers, but that we must experience for ourselves. He wants us to feel the greatness in life and appreciate how lucky we are to have been born in this world and make the best out of what has been given to us in this life. Even when we feel that we are one and that each and every one of us is an individual, we all belong to a bigger idea. We are all connected somehow, we originate from the same point and we are all part of this common world. We are all equal and most importantly “ has anyone supposed it to be lucky to be born?” (Song of Myself, p.147). Strong, is how the relationship between humanity and nature should be. We need to give much more value to the natural world. The natural world helps us understand everything that is hard to understand, including ourselves. When a connection happens between the human world and natural world, this is when the natural world becomes