How is it that one could drop all the hustle and bustle of the all too familiar go, go, go lifestyle, to go into the woods and live a bare essential, solitary life? This is exactly what Henry David Thoreau believed would make his life satisfying . This essay will go through multiple key ideas Thoreau composed while spending his days at Walden Pond. These ideas are reflections on the sounds, both good and bad, he encounters on his journey's through the woods. Also, reactions to visitors that would occasionally stop by. Or thirdly, how the winter months tested his ability to live the solitary life. Henry David Thoreau lived a fairly "normal" childhood. Attending all the great schools throughout his adolescence straight through to his higher learning as he graduated from Harvard. With an education to procure multiple professions, Thoreau was interested in something deeper. Looking for a way to live his life for each day. Wanting to live without the pressures and expenditures of a revolutionary society.
While reflecting on the sounds of a majestic nature, Thoreau's joy is disturbed by both the sights and sounds of a train in the distance. He comments, .
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"I watch the passage of the morning cars with the same feeling.
that I do the rising sun, which is hardly more regular. Their.
train of clouds stretching far behind and rising higher and.
higher, going to heaven while the cars are going to Boston,.
conceals the sun for a minute and casts my distant field into.
the shad, a celestial train beside which the petty train of cars.
which hugs the earth is but the barb of the spear"(Thoreau, 162).
Thoreau is watching the train come from afar. He states that the trains come and go as regularly as does the rising and setting of the sun. He sees the smoke of the train as a sign of the times. Thoreau knows nothing but the peaceful, warm days of spring which have proven well to his task.
