... 1A Poet Research Essay July 8, 2014 Analysis of Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience", "Walden", and "Walking" Henry David Thoreau said of himself "I am a Schoolmaster – a Private Tutor, a Surveyor – a Gardener, a Farmer – a Painter, I mean a House Painter, a Carpenter, a Mason, a Day-Laborer, a Pencil-Maker, a Glass-paper Maker, a Writer, and sometimes a Poetaster (The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau 186). His critics, his ... essays, poems, and translations were printed. "It had given him the confidence that he could write what was worth reading" (The Days of Henry Thoreau 121)....

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... hundred years ago, "I do not think I know what I do not know" (27). Henry David Thoreau was also a major critic concerning the ability of the masses to logically decipher "truth" and an advocate of an individual's responsibility to democracy regardless of a possible societal backlash. Thoreau's affirmation of the validity of individuality is evident throughout his work entitled Walden and Civil Disobedience. Thoreau believed that the ... Vonnegut examines how responsibility is and is not taken for actions in his book Cat's Cradle. The theme of book revolves around an event which altered...

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