The novel Walden by Thoreau and the many poems by Dickinson can be compared to show the same messages written by both authors. With the poem “The soul selects its own society” it relates to the book Walden by sharing the same message through its text. This message that I found was that society will change who you are, but to be yourself you can only look inside instead of the culture of our society.
In the novel Walden the first piece of illustrative text I pulled out from the book is, “Though it is now dark, the wind still blows and roars in the wood, the waves still dash, and some creatures lull the rest with their notes.” This painted a picture in my mind while reading the novel. The author writes these lines describing the surrounding of