Archive for July, 2002
No Wonder I Love a Rainy Night
Monday, July 1st, 2002
Thoreau’s ability as a naturalist emerges more in the chapters entitled “Winter Animals” and “The Pond in Winter” than it has in previous chapters. “Winter Animals” describes in some detail the hooting owls, foxes, red squirrels, blue jays, chickadees, partridges, squirrels, wild mice, and hares that he observed during the winter. I suspect that these [...]
Winter Animals and the Pond in Winter
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2002
Winter provides time for reflection and Thoreau continues to spend his days, making careful notes about his experiment, living on Walden Pond. He is entertained by the animals who visit; he concentrates on his waking thoughts, the fishermen and the mystery of the depth of the lake. Workers come to harvest ice to preserve for [...]
The Tonic of Wilderness
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2002
In “Spring” Thoreau continues the vital job of reconciling science with his poetic vision of the world. He finds “life” even in Walden Pond itself:
Who would have suspected so large and cold and thick-skinned a thing to be so sensitive? Yet it has its law to which it thunders obedience when it should as surely [...]
Walden, The Conclusion
Friday, July 5th, 2002
The Cosmos in a Drop of Pond Water
As I finished reading Walden, I asked myself in my best school teacher voice, “So, Diane, what did you learn from reading Walden?”
Thoreau had spent two years at Walden Pond, living alone in a cabin, recording his observations which were much more profound than the ice on the [...]
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