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How Does Thoreau Use Metaphors

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Thoreau utilizes metaphors to portray his disapproval of mankind’s inability to experience the world without being plagued by insignificant actions towards the future and an absorption in external factors. Humans, focused primarily on the future, use a “thousand stitches to save nine tomorrow,” illustrating that their present actions are solely to fix any forthcoming issues. By quantitatively modifying “a stitch in time”, Thoreau emphasizes that a vast majority of human actions are a result of being blindly concentrated on the future. He perceives such actions towards the future as wasted, demonstrated by the statement “we haven’t any of any consequence.” Not only do human actions disregard the value of the present, but they are also disordered,
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