Question

Read this excerpt from Walden:

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.

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?

Answer 1

here is the start of my answer...

One analogy that Thoreau uses in this paragraph is "time is but a stream i go a-fishing in." This analogy is to represent how time

Answer 2

@birdy258

Answer 3

its good

Answer 4

but it needs finished i dont exactly know what that phrase means :/

Answer 5

never mind i cant even use that its a metaphor not an analogy :C

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fucqu it ill use it anyways lol what else should i put

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@Elsa213

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@EBaar123

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@SeanStewart16