The message the author sends is contradicting earlier and later statements. ... This is the place where a wise man will dig his cellar"(pg93-94). Henry proves that lone living takes its effect on "a man thinking or working"(pg95)and therefore begins to wonder aimlessly. ... and such sympathy havethey ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds would shed their tears, and the woods shed their leavesin midsummer, if any man should for just a momentcause grieve" (pg96-97). ... Thoreau wants to send t...

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More importantly Thoreau depicts the clouds as "ethereal gauze,"" illustrating the sheerness of the clouds, yet how too the clouds partially conceal the sun from the eye. ... First, as the source of rivers, it gives rain to the streams. The phrases "dew-cloth- and "dream drapery- represent a veil-like effect of the cloud: the cloud is transparent to see through but is too opaque to see anything clearly. ... The man not having the "courage to unbar the door- presents his inability to go outside his immediate, comfortable surroundings. ... In Thoreau's poetry fog serves as a metaphor of a s...

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Only a few decades after the first telescope was invented, a whole literature of space travel had emerged, mixing fiction with newly acquired astronomical knowledge (Man and Space 9-10). ... There is no doubt that the powers that are now coming into our hands will be enough to reshape this solar system like we have already reshaped the Earth (Man and Space 153). ... The immediate effects of a major impact, including firestorms, acid rain, and the destruction of ozone layer, coupled with the possible triggering of volcanism and seismic activity will cause a huge environmental disaster and ...

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