Walden Ch 9 Flashcards

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Sometimes Thoreau joins a companion who

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Fishes on the pond

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2
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Scenery of walden is beautiful but

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Humble

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3
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Walden pond is very

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Clear and is one mile long

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4
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Walden u like other ponds looks

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Blue and green at the same time combining sky and earth

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5
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In the spring the water reflects even

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Bluer than the sky

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Water of walden is

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Pure and clear

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Walden has —- and — water to be admired by

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Pure and well like

Unremembered civilizations

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8
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People wonder how stones have been placed so

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Regularly around the pond

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9
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The pond has the best and

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Coldest water in tone

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10
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Walden pond is a perfect

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Mirror

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11
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Walden pond persevered its purity better than

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Any man Thoreau has known

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12
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Pond remains

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Perennially young

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13
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Walden is the closest Thoreau can get to

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God and heaven

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14
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Thoreau scoffs at the name of flints pond which is named after a

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Farmer who never loved it

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15
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If we are going to name gestures of landscape after men it should be after

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Noble men

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16
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Walden and white ponds are far

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Purer than humans

17
Q

Nature has no human inhabitants who

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Appreciate her

18
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Walden is the paragon because of the

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Purity of the water reflected in its color and the sand beneath its surface

19
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The pond is like a mirror for Thoreau in that the

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Divinity of the pond reflects his own divinity and the pond shows Thoreaus attempt to purify his spirit

20
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When he’s had enough of people Thoreau goes to unfrequented parts of

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Town and eats berries