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How might Chris McCandless be inspired by Henry's Ideals?

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How might Chris McCandless be inspired by Henry's Ideals?

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His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, and philosophical austerity. Both him and Chris McCandless create symbolic meanings in their lives.

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He wrote the poem as celebration from his independence, and celebratory of nature. He spent two years in a small cabin by a lake which inspired his writings.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJL9S0J8-4k

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It is 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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He is best known for his book "Walden." It was a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government.

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"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

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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.