About Walking
Rhetorical Analysis: About Walking
About Walking Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, He was a philosopher, naturalist and an American author (Witherell, 1995). According to the book, Listening to Earth, Thoreau graduated from Harvard College, but never got a long term job because he devoted his life to bring awareness to public of the nature. During his lifetime, his poetry and literature were barely known by the public. However, after two decades his deaths, in 1862, Thoreau’s article,” become popular and respected for their unconventional logic and accurate observations on life and nature” (Hallowell & Levy, 2005). Furthermore, while David Thoreau wrote his last form of literature, walking, he was diagnosed with the bed-written disease, tuberculosis. Walking was the last writing Thoreau wrote in his life when he lived in the cabin he build by himself at Walden Pond (Hallowell & Levy, 2005). In walking, Thoreau intended to advocate naturalism and preserve nature by Walking, thus, the people who are interested in nature are his intended audience. In Thoreau’s writing, he described how he feels when he walks in nature and how he enjoys it, however, at the same time, he worried about the human beings uses the sources from nature without caring. The author uses philosophy gracefully, unromantic and restrained as pathos to praising the wildness and criticizes the urbanization. Also, he as a naturalist and professional writer; therefore he uses his own experiences and knowledge to appear ethos, and he use his walking feeling as a way to human beings to connect with the planet. The article also shows the logos which is destroying the nature is a horrible behavior for human beings and he was trying to find the balance between civilization and nature which can be called sustainability within the poem walking; Thoreau successfully uses logo, ethos and
About Walking Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, He was a philosopher, naturalist and an American author (Witherell, 1995). According to the book, Listening to Earth, Thoreau graduated from Harvard College, but never got a long term job because he devoted his life to bring awareness to public of the nature. During his lifetime, his poetry and literature were barely known by the public. However, after two decades his deaths, in 1862, Thoreau’s article,” become popular and respected for their unconventional logic and accurate observations on life and nature” (Hallowell & Levy, 2005). Furthermore, while David Thoreau wrote his last form of literature, walking, he was diagnosed with the bed-written disease, tuberculosis. Walking was the last writing Thoreau wrote in his life when he lived in the cabin he build by himself at Walden Pond (Hallowell & Levy, 2005). In walking, Thoreau intended to advocate naturalism and preserve nature by Walking, thus, the people who are interested in nature are his intended audience. In Thoreau’s writing, he described how he feels when he walks in nature and how he enjoys it, however, at the same time, he worried about the human beings uses the sources from nature without caring. The author uses philosophy gracefully, unromantic and restrained as pathos to praising the wildness and criticizes the urbanization. Also, he as a naturalist and professional writer; therefore he uses his own experiences and knowledge to appear ethos, and he use his walking feeling as a way to human beings to connect with the planet. The article also shows the logos which is destroying the nature is a horrible behavior for human beings and he was trying to find the balance between civilization and nature which can be called sustainability within the poem walking; Thoreau successfully uses logo, ethos and
References: list Hallowell, C., & Levy, W. (2005). Urban vision,rural reflection. PEARSON EDUCATION,Inc. Witherell, E. (1995, October 1). Life and times of henry david thoreau. ABOUT THOREAU, Retrieved from http://legacy.library.ucsb.edu/thoreau/thoreau_life.html