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Henry David Thoreau's Use Of Romanticism In Walden

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"Henry David Thoreau, the author of walden, uses romanticism and spiritualism to show mans never ending need for the individual's power, to be at peace and to live a fulfilled life . The philosophy of the excerpts shows us the yearning of mankind to be at peace with oneself and to feel serenity. "I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief." The men in the book show us the struggles in which they face in their daily life and how society influence can be dangerous and the feeling peace can only be achieved amongst wild things. The men use metaphor to to describe how animals do not worry with the anomaly of the next day but accept what their lives are in the present, it relates to our lives strongly …show more content…

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." Man's dreams and expectation cannot be suppressed by ignorant reality , we all have different callings in which we run differently at our own pace let us run it and restrain from societies chastising. The quote shows deep us spiritualism by the use of every man's journey, and in what pace they run it resonates to my life by telling me that we all have different expectation of life and different dreams we should pursue and not let anyone put us down. "If one advances, confidently in the direction of his or her dreams and endeavors to live the life in which he has imagined, he will meet success at unexpected common hours the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness". Despite the depiction of man's pain and struggle in the walden book it also uses romanticism to state that if a person works hard towards his or her dreams success shall meet them at times which were not expected. Do your best and let nature run its course and the rules shall be bent or changed to accommodate your wildest

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