{"id":20717,"date":"2024-04-11T02:47:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T02:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/what-do-you-think-thoreau-means-when-he-talks-of-our-genius-what-is-the-nature-of-our-genius-according-to-thoreau-from-where-does-it-originate-what-is-its-purpose\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T02:47:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T02:47:10","slug":"what-do-you-think-thoreau-means-when-he-talks-of-our-genius-what-is-the-nature-of-our-genius-according-to-thoreau-from-where-does-it-originate-what-is-its-purpose","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/what-do-you-think-thoreau-means-when-he-talks-of-our-genius-what-is-the-nature-of-our-genius-according-to-thoreau-from-where-does-it-originate-what-is-its-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you think Thoreau means when he talks of &#8220;our Genius&#8221;? What is the nature of our Genius, according to Thoreau? From where does it originate? What is its purpose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; font-size: 13.333333px; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\">Address the following in a written essay:<\/strong><\/div>\n<ol style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\">What do you think Thoreau means when he talks of &#8220;our Genius&#8221;? What is the nature of our Genius, according to Thoreau? From where does it originate? What is its purpose?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; font-size: 13.333333px; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\">Essay Requirements:<\/strong><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\">Must be formatted according to current MLA standards (Left name block, double space, page numbers, etc.). Use Times New Roman 12 pt font.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\">Submit as a Word or PDF document only.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\">Must be a minimum of 500 words and no more than 750 words.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\">Must include a clear, argumentative thesis statement in your introductory paragraph.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\">Use essay formatting, including an introduction paragraph, body, and conclusion. Each point in your body must point back to and support your thesis statement.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\">Utilize one (1) secondary literary scholarly source. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\">Must contain two (2) direct quotes or paraphrases from the essay.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\">Must contain two (2) direct quotes or paraphrases from your secondary source.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\">Quotations must be no longer than 2-3 lines.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\">Must properly cite the quotes within the text.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\">Must properly cite the sources in the Works Cited.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\">You will be graded on your ability to properly format the essay, the organization of the essay, grammar and punctuation, and your ability to support your points with primary and secondary sources.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.333332px; cursor: auto;\"><br \/>\n<h1 style=\"cursor: auto; color: rgb(205, 205, 205);\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">H<small style=\"cursor: auto;\">ENRY<\/small><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>D<small style=\"cursor: auto;\">AVID<\/small><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>T<small style=\"cursor: auto;\">HOREAU<\/small><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">Where I Lived, and What I Lived For<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; cursor: auto;\"><i style=\"cursor: auto;\">From Henry David Thoreau\u2019s book<\/i><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>Walden<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><i style=\"cursor: auto;\">(1854), an account of his life in a small cabin on Walden Pond, outside the village of Concord, Massachusetts; in<\/i><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>Walden<i style=\"cursor: auto;\">, Thoreau not only describes his life in the woods but also develops a philosophy for living.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">W<\/span><small style=\"cursor: auto;\">HEN<\/small><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>I<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><small style=\"cursor: auto;\">FIRST<\/small><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>took up my abode in the woods, that is, began to spend my nights as well as days there, which, by accident, was on Independence day, or the fourth of July, 1845, my house was not finished for winter, but was merely a defence against the rain, without plastering or chimney, the walls being of rough weather-stained boards, with wide chinks, which made it cool at night. The upright white hewn studs and freshly planed door and window casings gave it a clean and airy look, especially in the morning, when its timbers were saturated with dew, so that I fancied that by noon some sweet gum would exude from them. To my imagination it retained throughout the day more or less of this auroral character, reminding me of a certain house on a mountain which I had visited the year before. This was an airy and unplastered cabin, fit to entertain a travelling god, and where a goddess might trail her garments. The winds which passed over my dwelling were such as sweep over the ridges of mountains, bearing the broken strains, or celestial parts<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/span>only, of terrestrial music. The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it. Olympus<sup style=\"cursor: auto;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\">1<\/a><\/sup><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>is but the outside of the earth every where.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; cursor: auto;\">The only house I had been the owner of before, if I except a boat, was a tent, which I used occasionally when making excursions in the summer, and this is still rolled up in my garret; but the boat, after passing from hand to hand, has gone down the stream of time. With this more substantial shelter about me, I had made some progress toward settling in the world. This frame, so slightly clad, was a sort of crystallization around me, and reacted on the builder. It was suggestive somewhat as a picture in outlines. I did not need to go out doors to take the air, for the atmosphere within had lost none of its freshness. It was not so much within doors as behind a door where I sat, even in the rainiest weather. The Harivansa<sup style=\"cursor: auto;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\">2<\/a><\/sup><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>says, \u201cAn abode without birds is like a meat without seasoning.\u201d 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. I was not only nearer to some of those which commonly frequent the garden and the orchard, but to those wilder and more thrilling songsters of the forest which never, or rarely, serenade a villager,\u2014the wood-thrush, the veery, the scarlet tanager, the field-sparrow, the whippoorwill, and many others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; cursor: auto;\">I was seated by the shore of a small pond, about a mile and a half south of the village of Concord and somewhat higher than it, in the midst of an extensive wood between that town and Lincoln, and about two miles south of that our only field known to fame, Concord Battle Ground;<sup style=\"cursor: auto;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\">3<\/a><\/sup>but I was so low in the woods that the opposite shore, half a mile off, like the rest, covered with wood, was my most distant horizon. For the first week, whenever I looked out on the pond it impressed me like a tarn high up on the side of a mountain, its bottom far above the surface of other lakes, and, as the sun arose, I saw it throwing off its nightly clothing of mist, and here and there, by degrees, its soft ripples or its smooth reflecting surface was revealed, while the mists, like ghosts, were stealthily withdrawing in every direction into the woods, as at the breaking up of some nocturnal conventicle. The very dew seemed to hang upon the trees later into the day than usual, as on the sides of mountains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; cursor: auto;\">This small lake was of most value as a neighbor in the intervals of a gentle rain storm in August, when, both air and water being perfectly still, but the sky overcast, mid-afternoon had all the serenity of evening, and the wood-thrush sang around, and was heard from shore to shore. A lake like this is never smoother than at such a time; and the clear portion of the air above it being shallow and darkened by clouds, the water, full of light and reflections, becomes a lower heaven itself so much the more important. From a hill top near by, where the wood had been recently cut off, there was a pleasing vista southward across the pond, through a wide indentation in the hills which form the shore there, where their opposite sides sloping toward each other suggested a stream flowing<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/span>out in that direction through a wooded valley, but stream there was none. That way I looked between and over the near green hills to some distant and higher ones in the horizon, tinged with blue. Indeed, by standing on tiptoe I could catch a glimpse of some of the peaks of the still bluer and more distant mountain ranges in the north-west, those true-blue coins from heaven\u2019s own mint, and also of some portion of the village. But in other directions, even from this point, I could not see over or beyond the woods which surrounded me. It is well to have some water in your neighborhood, to give buoyancy to and float the earth. One value even of the smallest well is, that when you look into it you see that earth is not continent but insular. This is as important as that it keeps butter cool. When I looked across the pond from this peak toward the Sudbury meadows, which in time of flood I distinguished elevated perhaps by a mirage in their seething valley, like a coin in a basin, all the earth beyond the pond appeared like a thin crust insulated and floated even by this small sheet of intervening water, and I was reminded that this on which I dwelt was but<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><i style=\"cursor: auto;\">dry land<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 0.8em; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">Paragraph<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>5<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; cursor: auto;\">Though the view from my door was still more contracted, I did not feel crowded or confined in the least. There was pasture enough for my imagination. The low shrub-oak plateau to which the opposite shore arose, stretched away toward the prairies of the West and the steppes of Tartary,<sup style=\"cursor: auto;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\">4<\/a><\/sup><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>affording ample room for all the roving families of men. \u201cThere are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon,\u201d\u2014said Damodara,<sup style=\"cursor: auto;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\">5<\/a><\/sup><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>when his herds required new and larger pastures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; cursor: auto;\">Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me. Where I lived was as far off as many a region viewed nightly by astronomers. We are wont to imagine rare and delectable places in some remote and more celestial corner of the system, behind the constellation of Cassiopeia\u2019s Chair, far from noise and disturbance. I discovered that my house actually had its site in such a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe. If it were worth the while to settle in those parts near to the Pleiades or the Hyades, to Aldebaran or Altair,<sup style=\"cursor: auto;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\">6<\/a><\/sup><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>then I was really there, or at an equal remoteness from the life which I had left behind, dwindled and twinkling with as fine a ray to my nearest neighbor, and to be seen only in moonless nights by him. Such was that part of creation where I had squatted;\u2014<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-weight: 400; cursor: auto;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto;\">\u201cThere was a shepherd that did live,<\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto;\">And held his thoughts as high<\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto;\">As were the mounts whereon his flocks<\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto;\">Did hourly feed him by.\u201d<sup style=\"cursor: auto;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\">7<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; cursor: auto;\"><\/span><br style=\"cursor: auto;\"><br style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address the following in a written essay: What do you think Thoreau means when he talks of &#8220;our Genius&#8221;? What is the nature of our Genius, according to Thoreau? From where does it originate? 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