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Henry David Thoreau: His Intentions for His Actions

Thoreau wanted to see and experience nature first hand. Growing up in a city, nature was most unknown to him. He writes in first person about the events and ideas that came to him during his time living at Walden Pond, in the eighteen hundreds. His intentions as a poet was top live a life of simplicity in order to make a direct connection between people, God, and nature.
In a period where growth both economically and territorially was seen as necessary for the development of a premature country, Thoreau felt the opposite. Thoreau was a man in search of growth within himself and was not concerned with outward improvements in him or society. In the chapter entitled "economy," he argued that people were too occupied with work to truly appreciate what life has to offer. He felt the root of this obsession with work was created through the misconstrued perception that material needs were a necessity, rather......

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