"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived"
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2007-11-01 18:37:07 · 7 answers · asked by femme fatale 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
He took the road less traveled so he could experience life to the fullest because he didn't want to look back on his life as an old man and realize that he had not really lived his life.
2007-11-01 18:40:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Thoreau was a man who sought solitude to order his thoughts. He observed much and wrote passionately about nature and societies role. He was a man who thought about what he should believe in and how to act on it. He was a socialist, abolitionist and probably a utopianist since he was friends with the Alcotts. He went to live in the cabin because he refused to support a government at war. He refused to pay taxes so he could not receive the benefits either.
He also said
"The grass flames up on the hillsides like a spring fire. Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors. Why the preacher does not dismiss his congregation ! "
Choose your place and seek your own secrete world then act.
2007-11-01 19:39:20 · answer #2 · answered by gardengallivant 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thoreau was not going to live without giving his all, even if it was for naught.
He was not concerned with the implications of society's view of what living is. They thought he was going to hell and he defiantly lived his own way.
He viewed religion as a hoax and was not going to live by that doctrine.
He chose to live alone in the country at Walden: a remote cabin with a pond. He told his colleagues that they should do the same. He was jailed for not conforming to the rules of society, and when ask what he was doing in there he answered back what are you doing out there. I think it was Walt Whittman.
This view meant that Walt should not be conforming to the standards of society and the quote you gave reflects this idea.
2007-11-01 22:14:56 · answer #3 · answered by boworl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's telling others why he lives the way he does. He wants to live life to it's fullest and not let peer pressure get in the way. He wants to look back on his life and know he made correct decisions, even if they were not popular at the time he made them. Don't be afraid to be different and do what you really want to do.
2007-11-02 01:38:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dead Poets society?
Sounds like he's soul searching, trying to undo all the pre-concieved worldy expectations of success and what supposedly constitutes a life well lived. I think he's looking for a simpler more honest lifestyle.
2007-11-01 18:41:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To truly answer, go into the woods with no purpose, no agenda and no expectation. Go early, watch the sun rise, watch the woods come alive, take note of all you see, hear and feel; stay late and take note of your experience, good, bad or indifferent. Remember your thoughts and your experience, then comment on the quote.
2015-12-09 16:08:11 · answer #6 · answered by rob 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he had a wild life because he thought that would make him happy...in the end, he realized he wasted his life...and now he couldn't get it back
2007-11-02 01:41:13 · answer #7 · answered by megumi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋