Walden Ch 3

Question 1

Emphasizes that literature as a whole is

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Beautiful and natural

Question 2

If men were more deliberate in choosing pursuits they would all be

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Students and observers

Question 3

Truth is

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Immortal

Question 4

Walden is a better place to read than a

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University

Question 5

Man is at a great distance from the

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Language of ancient times

Question 6

Worth learning even a few words from ancient language as means of

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Inspiration to transcend daily life

Question 7

Spoken language is brutishly and

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Unconsciously learned

Question 8

Difference between spoken

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Language and written language

Question 9

Written Language is:

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“Father language”

Must be learned with maturity

Question 10

Writer speaks to the few people across time who

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Truly understand them

Question 11

Books are more universal than all

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Other works of art

Question 12

Only great poets can

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Read and truly understand the works of great poets

Question 13

Most people learn to read for

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Convenience

Question 14

Most men don’t know the sacred scriptures of other traditions than the

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Judeo christian exist

Question 15

Thoreau wished to know more

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Educated men

Question 16

Compared having a copy of platos dialogues to having a

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Neighbor he never sees or hears

Question 17

Theme of immortality through

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Literature

Question 18

Thoreau utilizes the veil as a metaphor for

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Human ignorance, alluding to the bible

Highlights that this veil separates men from the concepts of divinity

Question 19

Great poets are the only people that can’t truly

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Understand and interpret literature

Question 20

Thoreaus representation of great poets illustrates an elitist time because he suggests within his writing that he

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Is one of these great poets

Question 21

Describes timelessness of literature and he is behind

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Many famous philosophers