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Writing like a transcendentalist.
Abstract
Thoreau's Walden presents a teaching challenge: students expect to enjoy a celebrated environmental book but then are disappointed when they find it repetitive and inaccessible. This article traces the development of a writing assignment designed to help students overcome their disappointment. The assignment asks students to conceive their own Thoreauvian vision of the natural world, encouraging them to engage in Walden's practice of sustained attention to detail and complex use of analogy. In the process, students learn that sticking with evidence does not necessarily amount to repetitiveness but rather adds depth to analysis. This awareness makes them ...
- Thoreau's 'Walden.' (Henry David Thoreau's book)
- Magazine article from: The Explicator Abbott, Collamer M. January 1, 1998 700+ words
...their trail" (11), wrote Thoreau in Walden. If we realize that Walden...productive industry," according to Thoreau (Walden 146). He is Chanticleer proclaiming...Hawthorne and His Mosses" (Walden 76). Thoreau makes his point about a simple...
- Sounding Walden Pond: the depths and "double shadows" of Thoreau's...
- Magazine article from: ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly) Poetzsch, Markus June 1, 2008 700+ words
...the titular pond itself. Walden Pond, that "distiller of celestial dews" (Thoreau, Walden 170), is indeed central...insect view" scrupulosity (Thoreau, Journals 1:81). The text of Walden, accordingly, functions...
- Works of Henry David Thoreau: Walden: Chapters 1 - 4
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Thoreau, Henry David January 1, 1963 700+ words
...David Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Walden: Chapters 1 - 4 Chapter I: Economy Thoreau begins the now-famous Walden very directly: "When I wrote...referring to the actual economies Thoreau practiced at Walden and at other times, is also ironic...
- Works of Henry David Thoreau: Walden: Chapters 9 - 18
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Thoreau, Henry David January 1, 1963 700+ words
Thoreau, Henry David Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Walden: Chapters 9 - 18 Chapter XI...the animal instinct in men. Thoreau's thoughts have been turned...tea!" Yet the real issue with Thoreau seems to be his conviction of...
- Thoreau@walden.pond. (Henry David Thoreau)
- Magazine article from: Canadian Dimension Austin-Smith, Brenda May 1, 1997 700+ words
...simplify," wrote Thoreau in 1854, having gone into the woods near Walden Pond to live in a small...live simply was born of Thoreau's dismay at the way...fax from the edge of Walden Pond, then you should...waste of life?" asked Thoreau, and it is a question...
- Works of Henry David Thoreau: Walden: Chapters 5 - 8
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Thoreau, Henry David January 1, 1963 700+ words
Thoreau, Henry David Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Walden: Chapters 5 - 8 Chapter...At the same time, Thoreau insists that his solitude...and companionship, Thoreau asserts, "I think...entertaining company at Walden. "I had three chairs...
- Thoreau's WALDEN.
- Magazine article from: The Explicator SAUNDERS, JUDITH P. March 22, 2000 700+ words
...prodigal son story. Thoreau persistently attributes...characteristics to Walden. It is his "neighbor...book. Ultimately Thoreau identifies Walden explicitly with...being in quest of Walden-like "purity"--that is, it is Thoreau himself and, by...
- Thoreau's 'Walden.' (Henry David Thoreau)
- Magazine article from: The Explicator Cooper, David C. March 22, 1993 700+ words
Thoreau's famous commentary on Walden Pond's legendary "bottomlessness...the poststructuralist. In Walden chapter 16, "The Pond in Winter," Thoreau writes: As I was desirous...the long lost bottom of Walden Pond, I surveyed it carefully...
Source: HighBeam Research, Writing like a transcendentalist.