Walden
Henry David Thoreau
VII. The Bean-Field
Overview :
Thoreau cultivates an acer long bean field. He planted the field, harvested, and put time into maintaining the field. Such an attachment has grown with his beans that he has become intimate with them. This field was his childhood, and is the earliest childhood memory stamped into his brain. He was not the only one occupying his bean field, critters like worms and woodchucks ate his field also. When Thoreau would hoe the fields he would find arrow heads, small pottery pieces, and the ashes of the ancient spirits who developed a marvelous city long before he was there. He could feel the ancient people when he would hoe certain stones or find certain artifacts. He began seeing and feeling the ancient world and not just his bean fields.
Rhetorical Stratigies :
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Biblical Allusions: Thoreau refers to biblical themes, for example he refers to Heaven when he says, "Only Heaven knows."
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Imagery: Thoreau uses imagery when talking about spirtis or imaginary people he uses colorful words to show the audience what he is seeing and how he is feeling or reacting
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Light Imagery: Thoreau uses images of light and the sun at the end of this chapter
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Juxtaposition: he compares and contrasts two ideas when he mentions " We should never cheat and insilt and banish one another by our meaness, if there were present the kernal of worth and friendliness."
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Polysyndenton and Tricolon: Thoreau uses these devices when he says " never cheat and insilt and banish"
Blog :
In this blog, write passages about past experiences where they felt a
connection to another world, or even create new stories of ancient or non-
existing worlds. When you, the writer writes his or her passage, others will
be able to view and read your writing. As this collectively grows the
writings can be used in comparison to other pieces read in AP English and
see how the emotional pieces written are similar or different from
professional pieces. When writing your passages, emulate Thoreau's style,
by analyzing the sentence level of his work along with his writing strategies.
A link of this chapter will be posted below for reference.