Walden Ch 4

Question 1

Early example of

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Naturalism

Question 2

Lived closer to

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Nature

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Focusing only on cooks neglects a more

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Universal language

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Important to always be

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Alert and to see all of life

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Learned about

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Contemplation which was valued by eastern philosophers

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Lived naturally and in the

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Moment

Question 7

If people pay close enough attention to what they’re doing they’ll

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Never be bored

Question 8

Happy to see his furniture outside among

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Plants and animals like a part of nature

Question 9

He hears the train on Fitchburg railroad and used its tracks to

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Walk to the village

Question 10

Thoreau can hear the locomotive whistling

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Summer and winter and imagines it making merchants announcements about their goods

Question 11

Compared train to a comet and suggests that men have so harnessed nature in

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Making it that they are almost a new race worthy of inhabiting the world

Question 12

Railroad influenced people’s lives so much that they

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Measure time by the trains coming and going

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Bravery and enterprise to be four d in

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Commerce

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Church bells from surrounding towns are made

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Magical by their passage through thr woods

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Hears cows and likes it because it

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Connects him to nature

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Screech owls according to Thoreau sound like

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Humans lamenting their death

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Suggests that cockerel (rooster) be naturalized so that its call would

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Call everyone to awakeness

Question 18

Nature reaches right up to

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His door

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Human beings are part of a

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Continuum of nature

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The train serves as a symbol of the

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Industrial revolution

Question 21

Thoreau is critical of the industrial revolution because he feels the advancements being made are

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Taking away from people’s quality of life and is overriding nature

Question 22

And answers like the train are

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Controlling people rather than legitimately helping them

Question 23

Thoreau uses devices such as

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Imagery when describing nature

Question 24

He underscored the fact that he is

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Alone with nature which is a good thing

Question 25

As a typical romantic writer he feels a

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Connection between himself and nature

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Hints at multiple sounds while he lived at a distance away from

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The frontier town of concord