“Walden was dead and is alive again.” Imagine traveling back in time to Walden Pond in early spring of the mid-nineteenth century. Every part of the beautiful landscape has been blanketed in snow and ice, until the arrival of spring. Thoreau sets up vivid imagery from the quickly melting pond to the warbling of the sparrows to signify the blossoming of the new season. Throughout chapter seventeen we will make the connection between the rebirth of nature and the rebirth of man. Thoreau personifies
The Transcendent Notions Within Romantic Literature Romantic notions regarding the virtue found in youth and solitude, and God’s transcending existence in nature are prevalent in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden. Through similar, romantic perspectives, Emerson and Thoreau describe the spiritual growth they experience within nature. The idea that God exists in every aspect of nature is constantly voiced in both chapters, and both men explain how they achieve enlightenment