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https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/passage-henry-david-thoreaus-200th-birthday/

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Durell Thompson
Kayla Neal
Jacob Roldan
Marleah Bode

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Cape Cod

Correspondence

Essays

Journal

Lectures

The Maine Woods

Notebooks

Poetry

Translations

Walden

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

A Yankee in Canada

Transcendentalism
Def: an idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures.

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Thoreau kept a handwritten Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, that eventually grew into a writer's notebook and became the principal imaginative work of his career.

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O Nature! I do not aspireTo be the highest in thy choir, -To be a meteor in thy sky,Or comet that may range on high;Only a zephyr that may blowAmong the reeds by the river low;Give me thy most privy placeWhere to run my airy race.In some withdrawn, unpublic meadLet me sigh upon a reed,Or in the woods, with leafy din,Whisper the still evening in:Some still work give me to do, -Only - be it near to you!For I'd rather be thy childAnd pupil, in the forest wild,Than be the king of men elsewhere,And most sovereign slave of care;To have one moment of thy dawn,Than share the city's year forlorn. Henry David Thoreau

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O Nature! I do not aspireTo be the highest in thy choir, -To be a meteor in thy sky,Or comet that may range on high;Only a zephyr that may blowAmong the reeds by the river low;Give me thy most privy placeWhere to run my airy race.In some withdrawn, unpublic meadLet me sigh upon a reed,Or in the woods, with leafy din,Whisper the still evening in:Some still work give me to do, -Only - be it near to you!For I'd rather be thy childAnd pupil, in the forest wild,Than be the king of men elsewhere,And most sovereign slave of care;To have one moment of thy dawn,Than share the city's year forlorn. Henry David Thoreau

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This poem is about how passionate Henry Thoreau is about nature. It describes how relaxing and calming nature is to be, rather than being anywhere else. It shows that nature can be comforting and can make you realize that nature is vivid and calm. The main idea of this poem is that nature is a wonderful and beautiful thing and there is nothing that can come close to it. The last stanza in the poem explains how Henry would rather be a child running in the forest, rather than a king ruling.

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Mother: Cynthia Dunbar
Father: John Thoreau
Sister: Helen Thoreau
Brother: John Thoreau Jr.
Sister: Sophia Thoreau

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Born: July 12, 1817, Concord, MA

Died: May 6, 1862, Concord, MA

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Thoreau had broad and deep interests in nature and his readings spanned wide-ranging subjects, including Eastern philosophy, Greek mythology, poetry, agriculture, and science. He recorded his observations about nature in journal entries that later became a source of material for lectures, essays, and books at the walden pond.

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He was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.

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"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
"It's not what you look at that matters, it;s what you see."
"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

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Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. He began writing nature poetry in the 1840s, with poet Ralph Waldo Emerson as a mentor and friend. In 1845 he began his famous two-year stay on Walden Pond, which he wrote about in his master work, Walden. He also became known for his beliefs in Transcendentalism and civil disobedience, and was a dedicated abolitionist.