His use of images and comparisons based on his studies of animal behavior, life cycles of plants, and the events of changing seasons is best displayed in his best-known book, Walden. Thoreau wrote this book during his pilgrimage at Walden Pond on Emerson"'s property. ... In the book Walden, Thoreau showcases his simple way of life in order to free himself from the self-imposed social and financial constraints. ... Thoreau said of his stay at Walden, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it h...

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Thoreau and Emerson Transcendentalism is used frequently as main topics in the stories "Nature" and Walden. ... Walden was a story written by Thoreau, which is fairly similar to the contrasting book "Nature". ...

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His early journal "Walden" is based on the author's 2-year stay in a cabin he build himself on the shore of apond (called Walden), on Emerson's property.This work deals, among others, with the separation of morality from Christianity. ... "Walden" is also Thoreau's description how he learned to "live deliberately" and an expression of his own awereness of the importance of the present moment. ...

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Such works include, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Henry David Thoreau's Walden, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Edgar Allan Poe's short stories (Hurley 13, 15). ...

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The events of American history are very much connected to the influence of American literature and what it has become today. The inspiration that a writer needs is mostly gathered by the effects of the world around him/her, and this is how the geography and history of America have made an impact...

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American Renaissance Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," belongs to the period known as American romanticism, the period called, by F.O. Matthiessen, the American Renaissance. The American Renaissance took place roughly from 1840-1865, though the most significant work of this period was prod...

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American culture after the Revolutionary War was one of change. After securing freedom from King George III, the former colonists began to develop their own sense of national identity. With this recent individuality came new innovations such as the cotton gin, which cemented slavery as the cornersto...

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