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Sounds (Walden) (Other nightly sounds (Thoreau hears many sounds in the…
Sounds (Walden)
Other nightly sounds
Thoreau hears many sounds in the night such as wagons rolling, cows, and even dogs.
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Thoreau believe that the call o the rooster should be like a natural alarm clock which wakes everyone up.
Thoreau hears the sounds of the forest animals such as owls and foxes more than the sounds of dogs and rooster
The cabin's environment
Thoreau again uses imagery to explanation where the house is, it's on a hill over the pond and nearing the the forest.
Plants surrounded the cabin with berries and sumach, the berries grew so heavy that at one point they broke the branches of the plant.
Thoreau's closeness to nature is very prominent in this chapter showing his high value of nature as a Transcendentalist.
Surrounding noises
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Thoreau notices cattle and sheep from the Green Mountains which gets Thoreau imagining sheepdogs in the mountains looking for them.
The train
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Thoreau uses a metaphor which describes how an iron horse is flying around from the early morning to midnight.
The railroad is man-made and which Thoreau believes is somewhat like some race that fits into nature.
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Living in nature
Thoreau spent a lot of time farming and taking tin the sounds of the morning when he bathed such as the birds chriping.
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If people deeply focus on their surroundings they will find beauty in everything they do and everything will start to feel like a "pleasant pastime."