Also form of Waldo. Who wrote Walden Pond? Henry David Thoreau. What does it mean to live deliberately? Living deliberately means that you follow a path, but you designed it yourself. You state where you want to go and develop a strategy to get there. Who owns Walden Pond? It is owned and managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, and sees nearly , visitors every year. What did Thoreau do after Walden Pond? After leaving Walden Pond, Thoreau spent some time looking after Emerson's house while he was on tour in England.
Still fascinated with nature, Thoreau wrote down his observations on plant and wildlife in his native Concord and on his journeys. He visited the woods of Maine and the shoreline of Cape Cod several times.
What did Thoreau die of? How do you pronounce Thoreau? Pronounce Names Cramer. He had two main purposes in moving to the pond: to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers , as a tribute to his late brother John; and to conduct an economic experiment to see if it were possible to live by working one day and devoting the other six to more Transcendental concerns, thus reversing the Yankee habit of working six days and resting one.
His nature study and the writing of Walden would develop later during his stay at the pond. He began writing Walden in as a lecture in response to the questions of townspeople who were curious about what he was doing out at the pond, but his notes soon grew into his second book.
Thoreau stayed in the house at Walden Pond for two years, from July to September Walden condenses the experiences of those two years into one year for artistic unity. That same year he also took a trip to Maine to see and climb Mount Katahdin, a place with a much wilder nature than he could find around Concord.
A Week sold poorly, leading Thoreau to hold off publication of Walden , so that he could revise it extensively to avoid the problems, such as looseness of structure and a preaching tone unalleviated by humor, that had put readers off in the first book. Walden was a modest success: it brought Thoreau good reviews, satisfactory sales, and a small following of fans. Thoreau returned to the Emerson home and lived there for two years, while Emerson was on a lecture tour in Europe.
For much of his remaining years, he rented a room in his parents' home. He made his living by working in the pencil factory, by doing surveying, by lecturing occasionally, and by publishing essays in newspapers and journals.
His income, however, was always very modest, and his main concerns were his daily afternoon walks in the Concord woods, the keeping of a private journal of his nature observations and ideas, and the writing and revision of essays for publication.
Thoreau was an ardent and outspoken abolitionist, serving as a conductor on the underground railroad to help escaped slaves make their way to Canada. His trips to the Maine woods and to Cape Cod provided material for travel essays published first in journals; these were eventually collected into posthumous books. Other excursions took him to Canada and, near the end of his life, to Minnesota.
In May , Thoreau died of the tuberculosis with which he had been periodically plagued since his college years. He left behind large unfinished projects, including a comprehensive record of natural phenomena around Concord, extensive notes on American Indians, and many volumes of his daily journal jottings.
Since his death in , Thoreau and his work have inspired a steady stream of books, essays, paintings, and other works. The biographies we most often recommend are:. Richardson, Jr. Thoreau remarks that his reasons for leaving Walden Pond are as good as his reasons for going: he has other lives to live, and has changes to experience. Thoreau reflects that we humans do not know where we are and that we are asleep half the time. Thoreau goes to live in the woods because he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and learn what they had to teach and to discover if he had really lived.
The advice that Thoreau offers to those who live in poverty is love your life and money is not the answer to live. He believed that nature was a metaphor for spiritual enlightenment.
Walden is a great book and is considered a classic.
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