The document summarizes Henry David Thoreau's book Walden. It discusses how Thoreau lived in a home he built near Walden Pond in order to live simply and deliberately away from society. It describes Thoreau's critiques of modern society, including that people are too busy and tied down, don't truly live or think deeply, and worry too much about insignificant problems. The document emphasizes Thoreau's view that life should be lived with purpose and focus on essential truths rather than societal distractions.
Poetry, he wrote in the Preface, originates from ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ which is filtered through ‘emotion recollected in tranquillity’.
Poetry, he wrote in the Preface, originates from ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ which is filtered through ‘emotion recollected in tranquillity’.
"For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is fact."
This is said by Matthew Arnold. According to him, IDEA is supreme and in poetry, it is the idea that matters, that are attached by poetry through emotions. According to him THE FUNCTION OF POETRY is to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. He says if SCIENCE IS APPEARANCE then the POETRY IS EXPRESSION and there is no appearance without expression.
Then Arnold talks about setting our standard for poetry high. We must accustom ourselves to HIGH STANDARD and STRICT JUDGEMENT and there is no place for CHARLATANISM in poetry. Charlatanism is for confusing the difference between excellent and inferior, sound and unsound or only half sound, true and untrue or only half true. Judging with little differences has paramount importance, so there is no place for charlatanism in poetry.
Cleanth Brooks - The Language of ParadoxDilip Barad
This presentation is based on Cleanth Brooks's essay "The Language of Paradox,", wherein Cleanth Brooks emphasizes how the language of poetry is different from that of the sciences, claiming that he is interested in our seeing that the paradoxes spring from the very nature of the poet's language: “it is a language in which the connotations play as great a part as the denotations. And I do not mean that the connotations are important as supplying some sort of frill or trimming, something external to the real matter in hand. I mean that the poet does not use a notation at all--as a scientist may properly be said to do so. The poet, within limits, has to make up his language as he goes.”
Here is another presentation which is really difficult to make it, because there are very few resources on the internet and some literature books. Nevertheless
we tried to analyze it with some summaries of this poem and thanks to our talented analyze techniques :P Hope you like it and please do not plagiarism...
"For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is fact."
This is said by Matthew Arnold. According to him, IDEA is supreme and in poetry, it is the idea that matters, that are attached by poetry through emotions. According to him THE FUNCTION OF POETRY is to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. He says if SCIENCE IS APPEARANCE then the POETRY IS EXPRESSION and there is no appearance without expression.
Then Arnold talks about setting our standard for poetry high. We must accustom ourselves to HIGH STANDARD and STRICT JUDGEMENT and there is no place for CHARLATANISM in poetry. Charlatanism is for confusing the difference between excellent and inferior, sound and unsound or only half sound, true and untrue or only half true. Judging with little differences has paramount importance, so there is no place for charlatanism in poetry.
Cleanth Brooks - The Language of ParadoxDilip Barad
This presentation is based on Cleanth Brooks's essay "The Language of Paradox,", wherein Cleanth Brooks emphasizes how the language of poetry is different from that of the sciences, claiming that he is interested in our seeing that the paradoxes spring from the very nature of the poet's language: “it is a language in which the connotations play as great a part as the denotations. And I do not mean that the connotations are important as supplying some sort of frill or trimming, something external to the real matter in hand. I mean that the poet does not use a notation at all--as a scientist may properly be said to do so. The poet, within limits, has to make up his language as he goes.”
Here is another presentation which is really difficult to make it, because there are very few resources on the internet and some literature books. Nevertheless
we tried to analyze it with some summaries of this poem and thanks to our talented analyze techniques :P Hope you like it and please do not plagiarism...
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"Solitude" from Waldon by Henry David Thoreau. It is an amazing essay by him. He very well represented the nature and solitude in essence of beauty. Henry David Thoreau deeply connected with nature. And Henry David Thoreau was prominent figure of transcendentalist movement.
"Solitude" from Waldon by Henry David Thoreau. It is an amazing essay by him. He very well represented the nature and solitude in essence of beauty. Henry David Thoreau deeply connected with nature. And Henry David Thoreau was prominent figure of transcendentalist movement.
"Solitude" Walden from by Henry David Thoreau.pptxKhushiRathod39
"Solitude" from Waldon by Henry David Thoreau. It is an amazing essay by him. He very well represented the nature and solitude in essence of beauty. Henry David Thoreau deeply connected with nature. And Henry David Thoreau was prominent figure of transcendentalist movement.
2. WHERE I LIVED
Thoreau recalls several places he considered living
before deciding on his home in the woods near
Walden Pond
He never actually purchased a home, but came
close when he bought Hollowell place (owners wife
changed her mind and Thoreau walked away empty
handed)
“ I found that I had been a rich man without any
damage to my poverty” (Thoreau 68).
Thoreau became rich by means of life experience
3. WHERE I LIVED CONTINUED…
After moving into his home in the woods, Thoreau
describes the nature that surrounds him
“ Such was not my abode, for I found myself
suddenly neighbor to the birds; not by having
imprisoned one, but having caged myself near
them” (Thoreau 70).
Living in the woods has brought him both closer to
nature and his spiritual side as well as farther away
from society and its harsh standards of living
4. WHAT I LIVED FOR
Thoreau’s critique of
Evidence in text
society
People are too easily tied “ As long as possible, live
down in their daily lives free and uncommitted”
(Thoreau 69).
We need to take advantage “ That man who does not
of every day we are given believe that each day
contains an earlier, more
sacred, and auroral hour
than he has yet profaned,
has despaired life, and is
pursuing a descending and
darkening way” (Thoreau
73).
5. WHAT I LIVED FOR CONTINUED…
Thoreau’s critique of
Evidence in text
society
People are alive, but don’t “ To be awake is to be
truly live their lives and think alive. I have never yet met a
deeply man who was quite awake”
(Thoreau 74).
People worry too much and “ Simplicity, simplicity,
don’t have true focus on any simplicity! I say, let your
one thing affairs be as two or three,
and not a hundred or a
thousand” (Thoreau 75).
6. WHAT I LIVED FOR CONTINUED…
Thoreau’s critique of
Evidence in text
society
Society is full of people “ Men say that a stitch in
doing meaningless busy time saves nine, and so they
take a thousand stitches to-
work
day to save nine tomorrow.
As for work, we haven’t any
of consequence” (Thoreau
76).
Life should be lived with a “ Let us spend one day as
purpose and not be effected deliberately as Nature, and
by insignificant societal not be thrown off the track by
problems every nutshell and mosquito’s
wing that falls on the rails”(
Thoreau 79).
7. “ 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 I HAD TO TEACH, AND NOT, WHEN I
CAME TO DIE, DISCOVER THAT I HAD NOT
LIVED” (THOREAU 74).
Thoreau moved into the woods to escape and unplug
from society. This way, he could become one with
nature, have his thoughts to himself, and discover the
purpose of life.