Word: thoreau
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...nebulous spirit which makes men dream and which the suffering women of the story are meant to understand and love unconditionally. The choice of poets supposedly echoes the American sentiments of the age, with Lord Byron representing Melody's Romantic longing for Old World ways, and Thoreau's Yankee desire for freedom from internal oppression assigned to Sara's lover Mr. Harford, a character we never...
...neigher of these poets ever fully possesses the American consciousness, it is appropriate that the play does not choose one over the other but discards them both for a compromise in Sara. She is ambitious and free, much like Thoreau's envisioned Yankees, but ultimately she accepts the Romantic notions of love and order. Sara's state at the end of the play anticipates Jackson's victory and a shift to idealism combined with populism...
...They're going to come to your room. They'regoing to feed you this stuff. You're going to beblitzed out of your mind. It will be a trulytranscendental experience," Slaughter said."Thoreau went out to Walden because this optionwasn't available...
...adventures are likely to be more subtle than Thoreau's, and less worthy of documentation and the general public's attention. No guidebook may ever point out the ledge of Widener where we sat, though it may figure prominently in tourists' slide shows. To us, though, it will be immortal...
...thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will," Thoreau says. We don't have to live by ourselves or go to the woods to find Walden. It is here if we create it, and it will remain here. Whenever we return to it, we will be able to hear the echo of ourselves...