Analysis Of Oliver Wendell Holmes 'Poem The Chambered Nautilus'

In Walden (Where I Lived & What I Lived For), Thoreau travels to a place not far from the rest of the world, but to him he “did not feel crowded or confined in the least. There was pasture enough for my imagination” (Walden 66). By escaping the real world he is able to come to terms that everyday was a new adventure. “Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself” (Walden 67). Thoreau connects to nature by spending his time in the woods to live deliberately and to learn what nature had to teach us or offer us. “We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep” (Walden 68). Thoreau says that it's doesn't take extreme measures or far distances to connect yourself to nature and escape the real world. Letting nature teach you what they have to offer can allow life to slow down and really enjoy what life has to

Thoreau believed it was best to live a simple life claiming,’’I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life’’ (par. 1). He wanted to get the most out of life and make sure he was truly living. Although he lived in the woods he went to Harvard University’s library to check out books. Many people wonder how could you

David Thoreau uses Tone,Metaphor, and Theme to emphasize that people would benefit their lives in strengthening their connection to nature. To live life in simplicity and harmony. David Thoreau’s life was influenced by nature, he wanted people to learn the lesson life has to teach us.

In the beginning of creation of humans, nature has always been there as a friend. Nature is the phenomena of the physical world that includes plants, animals, the landscape, and other features that are on earth. Nature has all of the wild and domestic living things. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American poet that led the transcendentalist movement and influenced other through his ideas and thinking. Ralph wrote “Nature,” and he describes his true feelings toward nature and God and how they have taken part of what has been created and also the relationship to humans. Ralph Waldo Emerson writes the passage “Nature” and he uses comparison between humans and nature and also uses figurative language to convey his appreciation and gratitude for nature.

In Thoreau’s mind, he views life experience as the way to learn. Thoreau believes that

Simplicity allows us to have a richer life. Thoreau existed simply

Emerson encourages one to think of nature as a whole, and not merely as a collection of individual entities.

Henry David Thoreau wanted to get most of out of life and did so in the woods. He built a cabin in the woods and a lived a simplistic life. In “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For,” Thoreau asserts that “I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life… to put to rout all that was not life: and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived” (Thoreau, 8). Conformity creates an uninspiring life full of thoughts of the mass.

In the first line, it is stated that “The fish in the stone would like to fall back into the sea”. This shows that after he died and his body lost function, the fish wishes he could return to his old form and activity. Words like “weary” and “waiting” are used to describe the laboratory and give it a simple but clinical feel. The ocean, on the other hand, is described as silent and “unnecessary”, giving it a sense of vacancy and extraneousness. In the past, the fish lived in water which moves and flows in the way that life does. The fish now lives in stone which like death represents permanence, expressing the motion of the living and the immobility of the dead. He is tired of “analysis” and “small predictable truths” implying that there is more to living than trivial answers to trivial questions, and that there was more contentment for him in the sea and in living then there is now for him in death. Because the fish already knows the numbers of his existence he finds recitation tiring and predictable. This is also works as a brief commentary on how science seeks to understand things. It shows that science rarely focuses on larger pictures

I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen,and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. ”(17). While Thoreau lived in nature he learned the true meaning of life, he wanted to live his life with a purpose and wanted to experience learning new things about life. You don’t really get to experience the little details in life, He lived his life with no modern civilizations around him he wanted to gain knowledge of what life was truly like and experiencing everything while living in nature, Life seemed it had slowed life down for

Emerson and Hawthorne both focused on nature and how humans affected it, but Emerson wrote more about being optimistic than Hawthorne, whom was more of a dark romanticism writer. In the essay "Nature", Ralph Waldo says, " But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give a man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime"(Emerson 11). This quote demonstrates how Emerson focuses on the feel of nature to oneself being one with nature. Previously he talks about how nature offers solitude and how we should take advantage of it instead of ignoring what the world has to offer.

Thoreau wished to open the minds of many revealing the importance of nature “Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails” (Thoreau II). In the quote, Thoreau discusses how he learned to live deliberately in nature encouraging other members of society to do the same. He has learned that it can lead to harmonization with oneself, to

A Comparison of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Beliefs concerning Simplicity, the Value and Potential of Our Soul, and Our Imagination.Henry David Thoreau tests Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ideas about nature by living at Walden Pond, where he discovers that simplicity in physical aspects brings deepness to our mind, our soul to its fullest potential, and our imagination to be uplifted to change our lives. These two men believe that nature is what forces us not to depend on others’ ideas but to develop our own. Nature is ever changing so we must keep searching for explanations about human life. They feel that nature is the key to knowing all.Thoreau lives at Walden Pond to find the true meaning of life. He wants to experience

In Walden, Henry David Thoreau explains how a relationship with nature reveals aspects of the true self that remain hidden by the distractions of society and technology. To Thoreau, the burdens of nineteenth century existence, the cycles of exhausting work to obtain property, force society to exist as if it were "slumbering." Therefore, Thoreau urges his readers to seek a spiritual awakening. Through his rhetoric,Thoreau alludes to a "rebirth" of the self and a reconnection to the natural world. The text becomes a landscape and the images become objects, appealing to our pathos, or emotions, our ethos, or character, and our logos, or logical reasoning, because we experience his awakening. Thoreau grounds his spirituality in the physical

In addition to the warnings of the epigraph, the desolation of the surrounding environment which is a prevalent feature Eliot’s use of the desolation of the surrounding environment which is a prevalent feature in ‘The Hollow Men, complements his use of paradoxes and symbolism allowing him to draw attention to the emptiness of the ‘hollow men’. Elliot removes himself from the collective narration for two verses to give four examples of other things that have ‘missing essentials’. For example, “ shape without form, shade without colour, paralysed force, gesture without motion” is paradoxical as you cannot have shape without form or shade without colour. These incomplete contractions symbolise just like the hollow men they are half real, missing something else that will make them real. The concept of a shapeless form reiterates the theme of emptiness, as a shape becomes a form only when it has substance otherwise it’s just an empty idea. The poet provides contradictory examples, perhaps to represent the confusion surrounding the ‘hollow men’ inviting the reader to view the world as if lacking