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Works of Henry David Thoreau: Selected Poems

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Thoreau, Henry David

Thoreau, Henry David
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Selected Poems

Within The Circuit Of This Plodding Life:

Despite the title, this is a poem about freedom; Thoreau describes
various beautiful images in nature and the happiness he has obtained from
contemplating them. In his own magical way, he makes the promise they offer
him real, and not full of dreamy idealism. The poem is an argument that man is
"by God's cheap economy made rich." Thoreau has given it subtle, strong
form by eliminating almost all logical, rhetorical, or persuasive figures of
speech. A world of images makes the poem's argument, ...

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