Where I Lived and What I Lived for
Henry David Thoreau's Where I lived, and What I Lived For
I found Henry David Thoreau?s ?Where I Lived, and What I Lived For? made a very convincing argument. He has many examples to support his beliefs. Thoreau stresses the importance and value of living the simplest life nature affords, which I believe is as important now as it was in his day.
?Where I Lived, and What I Lived For? Opens with Thoreau describing how he came to live in a small, dilapidated cabin near Walden Pond. He speaks of the many farms he imagines owning, yet never does. Thoreau describes the landscape of the pond and the surrounding area. One of the highlights of Thoreau?s simple daily routine is to watch the sun rise and set on the pond. The mornings are especially important because he believes this is the time of day that your mind is awake for intellectual thought. Thoreau writes that we should simplify our lives as much as possible, and that we should only worry about our own affairs. He then closes the paper by writing that he does not want to work any harder than he has to, but tha. I found Thoreau's excerpt, from his book Walden, kind of complex and difficult to read throughout the whole reading. To me it seemed liked he packed his sentences with as much info and words as he could till they were about to burst. It seemed like he had about 5 or 6 commas per sentence, and I thought it made it harder to follow the sentence all the way through. But I think I was able to grasp the basic argument Thoreau was trying to make. Through his writing he simplified life to its smallest form. I agree with his argument of simplifying one's life and cut out all the non-necessities that we all have in our lives today. He goes to the woods in an attempt to "drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms…" and because he "wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life…" Maybe we show all at some point every year isolate ourselves and relieve ourselves of all the
I found Henry David Thoreau?s ?Where I Lived, and What I Lived For? made a very convincing argument. He has many examples to support his beliefs. Thoreau stresses the importance and value of living the simplest life nature affords, which I believe is as important now as it was in his day.
?Where I Lived, and What I Lived For? Opens with Thoreau describing how he came to live in a small, dilapidated cabin near Walden Pond. He speaks of the many farms he imagines owning, yet never does. Thoreau describes the landscape of the pond and the surrounding area. One of the highlights of Thoreau?s simple daily routine is to watch the sun rise and set on the pond. The mornings are especially important because he believes this is the time of day that your mind is awake for intellectual thought. Thoreau writes that we should simplify our lives as much as possible, and that we should only worry about our own affairs. He then closes the paper by writing that he does not want to work any harder than he has to, but tha. I found Thoreau's excerpt, from his book Walden, kind of complex and difficult to read throughout the whole reading. To me it seemed liked he packed his sentences with as much info and words as he could till they were about to burst. It seemed like he had about 5 or 6 commas per sentence, and I thought it made it harder to follow the sentence all the way through. But I think I was able to grasp the basic argument Thoreau was trying to make. Through his writing he simplified life to its smallest form. I agree with his argument of simplifying one's life and cut out all the non-necessities that we all have in our lives today. He goes to the woods in an attempt to "drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms…" and because he "wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life…" Maybe we show all at some point every year isolate ourselves and relieve ourselves of all the