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Key Examples in Walden
Higher Laws
Explanation and Analysis:
Thoreau rendered Walden in a precise and naturalistic style. He composed many long, flowing, detailed sentences that give the text a sense of grandeur. Sometimes he follows up a long sentence with a short, pithy aphorism, especially in the chapter "Higher Laws":
Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves, are often in a more favorable mood for observing her, in the intervals of their pursuits, than philosophers or poets even, who approach her with expectation. She is not afraid to exhibit herself to them.
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