Ioana Anca Drghici, American Studies

Walden
or
Life in the Woods
By Henry David Thoreau

Sounds
the society is a part of his world: any sound that
is produced by some individuals (or elements
that symbolize the human activities, e.g. the
train) is a pretext to analyze the society;

the sounds reveal the organic evolution of the

world (woods) or not (sounds with/ without
meaning);

 to be a seer that is able to understand the song

produced by the universal lyre;

commerce: pro and contra;

Solitude
This doubleness may easily make us poor
neighbors and friends sometimes.
quality vs. quantity;
the student vs. the farmer and the
student as a farmer;
Solitude = introspection;

Visitors
Visitors and friends;
the quality of the socializing;
The French Canadian-born woodsman
and his animal life;
The visitors and the pleasure of a rural life

The Bean-Field
the cultivation of bean-fields and the
cultivation of persons;
the soil keeps the evidence of the previous
acts of life; his bean-field is influenced by
this memory of the soil;
Commerce (money) vs. self-discipline;
nature as property vs. nature as partner/
teacher;

Village
a person that lives in the woods vs. a
person from a city and their relation with
the place;
the most important places in a city;
the city as a newsroom;
The incarceration as a response against
slavery and as a refusal of a competitive
and ruthless society;

Ponds
() but this water is of such crystalline
purity that the body of the bather appears
of an alabaster whiteness, still more
unnatural, which, as the limbs are
magnified and distorted withal, produces a
monstrous effect, making fit studies for a
Michael Angelo.

Baker Farm and Higher Laws

John Field and his fishing techniques;
Thoreau believe that Fields way are old
and this ways are not suitable for this
place;
Irish heritage;

Good economy vs. bad economy;

 Vegetarianism;
Animal nature and spiritual nature;
No to the consumption of alcohol, tea, and
coffee;