Question

Thoreau uses many analogies within this paragraph. Pick one and explain what he means by it. How does his imagery help to present an idea that is typical of transcendentalism?

i chose "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in"

Answer 1

i have it started but i dont know what to add ??

Thoreau used the analogy "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in" he's saying that time is a river but he put it in his own words here

Answer 2

here is the excerpt in case its needed :

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things. I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary. My head is hands and feet. I feel all my best faculties concentrated in it. My instinct tells me that my head is an organ for burrowing, as some creatures use their snout and fore paws, and with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills. I think that the richest vein is somewhere hereabouts; so by the divining-rod and thin rising vapors I judge; and here I will begin to mine.

Answer 3

@autumnm

Answer 4

any ideas?

Answer 5

i have no idea

Answer 6

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