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Walden and Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
“… read each work of work With the same spirit that it’s author writ” (Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 233-4) is an important quote that I heard after I had finished Walden.
I found myself very frustrated with the constant extrapolation and narration of life, with the idea of “simplify, simplify, simplify!!” The latter being the suggestion of Thoreau.
Had I known the quote from the beginning before I dove in, I may have found this to be a more enjoyable read, still finding value in Thoreau’s words and suggestions for life.
This part of the text has no plot, and that’s what I was looking for during the reading.
As I read Civil Disobedience, however, I found it to be much more pleasurable. I enjoyed the criticisms and the suggestions of Thoreau to be radical but reasonable. It was something I enjoyed thinking and mulling over, myself.
I found myself very frustrated with the constant extrapolation and narration of life, with the idea of “simplify, simplify, simplify!!” The latter being the suggestion of Thoreau.
Had I known the quote from the beginning before I dove in, I may have found this to be a more enjoyable read, still finding value in Thoreau’s words and suggestions for life.
This part of the text has no plot, and that’s what I was looking for during the reading.
As I read Civil Disobedience, however, I found it to be much more pleasurable. I enjoyed the criticisms and the suggestions of Thoreau to be radical but reasonable. It was something I enjoyed thinking and mulling over, myself.