I need a line or two about New England to open a thesis with, any ideas? thanks :)
2006-10-17 16:53:03 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
New England is renowned for it four seasons, but only a true New Englander Knows that there is a fifth season. Mud season. Between winter and spring, where all-season tires are shown to be unworthy of their namesake, only the New Englander can take pride in these few transitional weeks that make their region breed a stubborn and hardy persona. For in New England, despite the reticence of its inhabitants, it's all about the weather. The New England mind is a reflection of the seasons. The closest one can get to such a state of mind, short of spending a good year in such parts, is to read "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau.
That is my own quote, if you like. I am a tried and true New Englander. I found it amusing that a friend from Texas, who knew I was from Vermont, got all confused when I mentioned that I was a New Englander. Appearently he thought that New England was its own state, because it had its own football team.
2006-10-17 19:22:39 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
New England my home for an new, where the fall are brown,
and winter are white, on long to be in my New England home.
Sorry that best I can do.
2006-10-18 00:03:01 · answer #2 · answered by justmejimw 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"To the rest of the country, New England has always stood in much the same relation as England has to America -- that of spiritual homeland and mother country." ~ B.A. Botkin, author of A Treasury of New England Folklore
2006-10-18 08:23:45 · answer #3 · answered by Homebody123 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
-Robert Frost
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life
-Henry David Thoreau
2006-10-18 01:28:33 · answer #4 · answered by Sandie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out poetry by Robert Frost (Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening), Longfellow, and Walt Whitman.
2006-10-17 23:55:35 · answer #5 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Goodnight, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England."
I love that one.
I don't know who said it originally, (maybe it really was just Michael Caine) but it was beautiful in "The Cider House Rules."
2006-10-18 00:15:48 · answer #6 · answered by Sixth_Sense 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋