Walden Ch 6 Flashcards
He doesn’t need to
Comfort others
People would visit him to learn about his
Lifestyle
Three chairs
One for solitude
Two for friendship
Three for society
Not happy with the small size of his house only when he wants to speak with someone about
Big ideas which requires a lot of space
To communicate most intimately with some people we need to be so
Far apart that we can’t hear each other speaking
Best room
Pine woods behind his house
If 20 people come no one speaks of
Eating out of politeness
He is deterred from visiting people who make a big show of
Feeding him
Had more visitors while living in the woods than any other time in his life but fewer came on
Trivial business
French Canadian woods chopper reads homer but has no real
Intellectual appreciation of it
Thoreau speaks to a reformer and tries to get him to
Look at things spiritually
Thoreau suggests that there are men of
Genius in the lower grades of life
Thoreau talks to a pauper who tells Thoreau that the lord by his will has made him
Deficient of intellect
A runaway slave comes and Thoreau helps
Send him north
Girls boys and young women are happier in the woods while men of business are concerned about
Solitude snd employments and distance
Thoreau states that most of his visitors make him happy because they
Come to the woods looking for freedom
Loftiness refers to conversations Thoreau had with
His visitors being overbearing
Lack of space in his home:
Not enough time for listener to absorb words spoken
States that when people don’t absorb his works he and his visitors try to
Move their chairs apart
The woodsman wasn’t well educated but he was
Wise
Lower education can still be
Genius
Woodsman apparently represents the absence of
Intellectual and spiritual life and is a symbol of the majority of me.
Wood chipper represents the pure animal spirit of man and proves Thoreaus arguments about
Man as a part of nature
Thoreau admired the wood choppers
Unselfconscious and honest response to life
Woodsman represents mans ability to
Succeed without needing to be knowledgeable
He loves society as
Much as most people
