Vince Tarkanian English 1A Poet Research Essay July 8, 2014 Analysis of Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience", "Walden", and "Walking" Henry David Thoreau said of himself "I am a Schoolmaster – a Private Tutor, a Surveyor – a Gardener, a Farmer – a Painter, I mean a House Painter, a Carpenter, a Mason, a Day-Laborer, a Pencil-Maker, a Glass-paper Maker, a Writer, and sometimes a Poetaster (The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau 186). ... The issue of slavery would divide the country and throw it into civil war. ... A few years later, one ...

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As a follower of transcendentalism, Thoreau projected individualism in his literary works, Walden and "Civil Disobedience." ... To Thoreau, nature was a living being. ... Thoreau knew slavery was wrong. ... Thoreau argued in "Civil Disobedience" that "it is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. ... Another point that Thoreau argues in "Civil Disobedience" is that there are good laws and bad laws. ...

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"If a plant cannot live according to his nature, it dies; and so a man" (Emerson, Civil Disobedience, 260). ... "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity" (Thoreau, Walden, 253). ... "Our life is frittered away by detail" (Thoreau, Walden, 252). ... Emerson and Thoreau were very innovative men. ... For, as Emerson said, "If a plant cannot live according to his nature, it dies; and so a man" (Emerson, Civil Disobedience, 260)....

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Henry David Thoreau, the intellectual heir to Emerson's transcendental throne, carries on in this vein in his essay, "Civil Disobedience." Thoreau uses the Transcendentalist philosophy to attack the state from an anti-slavery platform. ... The quaint, idealistic notions of Emerson and Thoreau were nothing more than quaint, idealistic notions. ... Thoreau borrows a line from Antigone that sums up his experience well, "It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey"(11). ... The arrogance of Self-Reliance and Civil-Disobedience establ...

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Thoreau was born in 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. ... Thoreau lived his life on the bare essentials. ... Thoreau was a devoted, naturalist. ... Thoreau was not a supporter of these reforms. ... His most famous essay is "Civil Disobedience," published in 1849. ...

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