Walden Ch 12

Question 1

Hermit and

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Poet

Question 2

Imagined dialogue between

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Hermit and poet

Question 3

Hermit wonders what the world is

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Doing and speculates on the sounds he hears

Question 4

Poet states at the clouds and asks hermit to

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Come fish with him

Question 5

Thoreau wonders why certain species fill

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The place in our lives that they do

Question 6

All animals are beasts of

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Burden carrying or thoughts

Question 7

The Eyes of the partridges reflect an

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Age old intelligence

Question 8

If you sit still long enough in an attractive spot in the woods

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All its inhabitants will gradually exhibit themselves

Question 9

Battle between red ants and

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Black ants that are twice their size

Question 10

The battle between ants displays more

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Heroism and greater numbers than any American battle

Question 11

Thoreau has no doubt that the ants are fighting over an issue of

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Principle

Question 12

Thoreau saw a house cat by the pond and was surprised to see how

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Natural it looked

Question 13

Dialogue between hermit and poet is the

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Internal conflict that consumes Thoreau

Question 14

Hermit is Thoreaus spiritual side that desires only to

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Philosophize

Question 15

Poet is the instinctual animal part of Thoreau which e attempts to

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Shed

Question 16

Hermit cannot live without

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Poet though

Question 17

Entranced and inspired by

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Nature

Question 18

Struggle to reconcile the spirituality that he sees to

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Exist easily within nature

Question 19

Ants exemplify the troubled

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Coexistence of animal and spiritual

Question 20

Poet compliments

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Hermit

Question 21

Thoreau is initially conflicted on which side takes precedence (hermit and poet) which results in a

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Compromise where the two sides work together

Question 22

Anthropomorphism scales down immense size of war to make reader reflect on

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The difference between two mins icicle ants tearing at each other in comparison to human warfare

Question 23

Baby partridges instinctively follow their mothers signal this instinct shows

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Bravery

Question 24

Baby partridges are described as

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Advanced perfect gems precocious

Question 25

Mouse grew to be familiar with people so it could

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Get food for survival

Question 26

Partridges and nous etc show transcendentalism because

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God nature and human are all essential components of life

Question 27

Self

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Reflection