Walden Ch 4 Flashcards
Early example of
Naturalism
Lived closer to
Nature
Focusing only on cooks neglects a more
Universal language
Important to always be
Alert and to see all of life
Learned about
Contemplation which was valued by eastern philosophers
Lived naturally and in the
Moment
If people pay close enough attention to what they’re doing they’ll
Never be bored
Happy to see his furniture outside among
Plants and animals like a part of nature
He hears the train on Fitchburg railroad and used its tracks to
Walk to the village
Thoreau can hear the locomotive whistling
Summer and winter and imagines it making merchants announcements about their goods
Compared train to a comet and suggests that men have so harnessed nature in
Making it that they are almost a new race worthy of inhabiting the world
Railroad influenced people’s lives so much that they
Measure time by the trains coming and going
Bravery and enterprise to be four d in
Commerce
Church bells from surrounding towns are made
Magical by their passage through thr woods
Hears cows and likes it because it
Connects him to nature
Screech owls according to Thoreau sound like
Humans lamenting their death
Suggests that cockerel (rooster) be naturalized so that its call would
Call everyone to awakeness
Nature reaches right up to
His door
Human beings are part of a
Continuum of nature
The train serves as a symbol of the
Industrial revolution
Thoreau is critical of the industrial revolution because he feels the advancements being made are
Taking away from people’s quality of life and is overriding nature
And answers like the train are
Controlling people rather than legitimately helping them
Thoreau uses devices such as
Imagery when describing nature
He underscored the fact that he is
Alone with nature which is a good thing
As a typical romantic writer he feels a
Connection between himself and nature
Hints at multiple sounds while he lived at a distance away from
The frontier town of concord
