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Thoreau's Different Meaning To The Word Waking Up

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Thoreau describes different meanings to the word waking up. His first description portrays the literate definition of the phrase which is getting up and doing some type of “religious” or reoccurring action, such as bathing. For his symbolical definition of the phrase, he seems believe that it represents some sort of rebirth, because waking up allows one to “renew thyself completely each day; and do it again, and again”. As for the spiritual form of the phrase, he describes it as a time of awakening for the human spirit, especially in our intelligences in arts and poetry.

I Agree with Thoreau’s definition of waking up. Every time I wake up, I have some type of reoccurring action, I believe that my day has been reset and I believe that the
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