/lit/ - Literature

>>6992004
>>6991686

Dude seriously nobody cares about your childish shitposting. You obviously lack the historical and literary capacity to understand Walden.

During the 1840s, there were authors making an attempt to revolutionize American literary culture by infusing into it this spirit of radical independence and originality. It was an interesting time for American literature. They would no longer achieve cultural recognition by importing and imitating acknowledged English and continental models, but would discover and promulgate their own unique cultural genius. The hallmark of this genius, according to literary scholars/historians, would be Americans' heightened sense of self-reliance. Walden is a historic literary piece birthed out of the transcendentalist movement. Which is why Thoreau's Walden serves more as a critique on American cultural than an adventure story.

Furthermore, Thoreau's changing seasons correspond to changing psychological and moral conditions, just as descriptive passages often modulate into moral and symbolic reflections. The individual, or participant-observer is at the heart of Thoreau's writings; it serves as a fulcrum for his mythopoetic experience. Indeed, it's Thoreau's mythopoeic intentions that allow his book to situate this world in a deeper, more mythically and even morally resonate reality, (to ground the temporal seasonal changes) that reinforces the awakening motif announced in the epigraph.

Hence, Walden is an ultimate expression of New England elite culture: liberal in sentiment but hopelessly compromised by its entanglement with social institutions promoting the interest of the status quo.

>>6969659
Here:


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOY-jJeOeBk

Link is brutal honesty that people can't handle.