Figurative Language In Henry Walden By Henry Thoreau

Henry Thoreau uses figurative language to express his passion towards living a minimal life, appreciating and indulging one’s self in the present. He creates a realization in the reader's mind when he points out the flaws in the average person's way of living. He shows the irony of life when he uses figurative language to state “We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.” This implies that we as humans complain before there is even an approachable solution to a problem which does not exist yet. Humans tend to speed through life, complaining, and not noticing the fortunes they possess in one moment. The author also portrays a more fulfilling way of living life when he says “Let us spend one day as deliberately as nature, and not