Henry+David+Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau Important Facts -Born July 12, 1817 –Died May 6, 1817 -Born in **Concord, Massachusetts**. -was an **American** author, **poet**, **abolitionist**, **naturalist**, **tax resister**, **development critic**, **surveyor**, **historian**, **philosopher**, and leading **transcendentalist** -his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, **Civil Disobedience**, an argument for individual **resistance to civil government** in moral opposition to an unjust state. -David Henry was named after a recently deceased paternal uncle, David Thoreau. He did not become "Henry David" until after college, although he never petitioned to make a legal name change -Thoreau studied at **Harvard University** between 1833 and 1837. -Henry David Thoreau contracted **tuberculosis** in 1835 -Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. were greatly influenced by Thoreau’s writing -Thoreau had 3 siblings -Was born in his grandmothers farm house - Thoreau did not like parties -Never got married -Was very fine in Greek

Accomplishments -Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. -Interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time imploring one to abandon waste and **illusion** in order to discover life's true

Pictures =Poems= What's the Railroad to Me? What's the railroad to me? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing.

Smoke Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. Indeed, indeed, I cannot tell ponder on it well, Which were easier to state, All my love or all my hate. Surely, surely, thou wilt trust me When I say thou dost disgust me. O, I hate thee with a hate That would fain annihilate; Yet sometimes against my will, My dear friend, I love thee still. It were treason to our love, And a sin to God above, One iota to abate Of a pure impartial hate.

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