Rhetorical Analysis Of Thoreau's 'Where I Lived For'
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Rhetorical Analysis: Walden, ‘Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
“Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” Is the second chapter from Henry D. Thoreau’s book Walden, found on pages 81-98 originally published by Princeton University Press, 1854. This edition is the 2004 reprint of the 1971 copyright with an introduction by John Updike. The critical memoir was penned in 1845 by Henry David Thoreau as an account of a two year and two month period spent in the woods living at Walden Pond near the village of Concord, Mass. Written in observation of the times in which Thoreau lived, he masterfully describes aspects of the lives of the …show more content…
His writing reaches farther than his local affiliates. His words reach out to the entire nation of the time and future generations as well, whether intended or not. His orientation is one of local “roaming” and doesn’t express his thoughts farther than what he sees in his area; however, the text can be enveloped by people anywhere who can most definitely relate to the feeling of suffocation from the weight of possession and responsibility to a way of life that supports an unnecessary life style. He does however; take the stance that news is only minimally important in the aspect that once you hear something it really doesn’t matter how many times that same situation occurs. In a sense, once a person knows something is possible, the frequency in which it occurs is unimportant. His words reach farther than maybe even Thoreau had intended them. Whether or not they could be treated as “gospel” is up to the reader and what he or she is willing to give up in order “to live free.” Not many readers of his day would attempt such a life on purpose, and even Thoreau himself stayed near enough the village that his experiment could be aborted in the case of an extreme emergency even though he has yet to mention this outright in the text. Thoreau states: “I was seated by the shore of a small pond, about a mile and a half from the village of Concord and somewhat higher than
Student 2: Past experience
Rhetorical Analysis: Walden, ‘Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
“Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” Is the second chapter from Henry D. Thoreau’s book Walden, found on pages 81-98 originally published by Princeton University Press, 1854. This edition is the 2004 reprint of the 1971 copyright with an introduction by John Updike. The critical memoir was penned in 1845 by Henry David Thoreau as an account of a two year and two month period spent in the woods living at Walden Pond near the village of Concord, Mass. Written in observation of the times in which Thoreau lived, he masterfully describes aspects of the lives of the …show more content…
His writing reaches farther than his local affiliates. His words reach out to the entire nation of the time and future generations as well, whether intended or not. His orientation is one of local “roaming” and doesn’t express his thoughts farther than what he sees in his area; however, the text can be enveloped by people anywhere who can most definitely relate to the feeling of suffocation from the weight of possession and responsibility to a way of life that supports an unnecessary life style. He does however; take the stance that news is only minimally important in the aspect that once you hear something it really doesn’t matter how many times that same situation occurs. In a sense, once a person knows something is possible, the frequency in which it occurs is unimportant. His words reach farther than maybe even Thoreau had intended them. Whether or not they could be treated as “gospel” is up to the reader and what he or she is willing to give up in order “to live free.” Not many readers of his day would attempt such a life on purpose, and even Thoreau himself stayed near enough the village that his experiment could be aborted in the case of an extreme emergency even though he has yet to mention this outright in the text. Thoreau states: “I was seated by the shore of a small pond, about a mile and a half from the village of Concord and somewhat higher than