Essays on Walden

Just four years before Henry David Thoreau started his Walden project, his very good friend Ralph Waldo Emerson had written an essay called Self-Reliance. It is no coincidence that Thoreau’s Walden takes Emerson’s idea of self-reliance and implements it into his own writing. The essay...

“Walden” by Henry David Thoreau, a transcendentalist, is about the events of his time living at Walden Pond in the1800’s. Thoreau, who lives a life of simplicity, tries to make a connection between people, God, and Nature. He relates nature and his experiences within it...

“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 had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived”. Thoreau...

Just four years before Henry David Thoreau started his Walden project, his very good friend Ralph Waldo Emerson had written an essay called Self-Reliance. It is no coincidence that Thoreau’s Walden takes Emerson’s idea of self-reliance and implements it into his own writing. The essay...

Transcendentalism is the movement that emphasizes on transcendence from the ordinary limits of thoughts and experiences and acknowledges the new outlook in self reliance. The movement originated in America in the 19th century after the independence of America from the British gave people a different...

“Our life is frittered away by detail.” As individuals, we center much of our consciousness on the materialistic aspects of life which renders us blind to its more salient features. We need to live in a simplified manner in order to perceive all that living...

In Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, there are four main themes he wanted readers to take away including knowing the value of simplicity, mans need for solitude, the importance of self-reliance, and definitely nature being complete with God. Walden is an example of a transcendentalist work...