Walden Poem (: When despair for the world grows in me I go and lie down Where the drake rest in his beauty on the water. I wake in the night at the least sound In fear of what my life and my children life might be. I come into the presence of the still water For those who do not tax their lives with thoughts of grief And into the piece of the wild things I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. I rest in the grace of the world for a time and I feel free I am free. When writing this poem I was thinking about nature and the comparison of similarities and differences between living in the wild and living in something like the city. I feel like our society depends on getting handed stuff, like shelter and nice clothes but it’s as simple as getting a shirt and a part of pants and going to lie down in the forest for example. Just accepting and enjoying the world around us. We tend to get sucked in the ways of society we like to conform to what everyone does. For example in the first chapter “economy” Thoreau says public preoccupation with fashionable clothing he considers to be “false skin”. He also expresses his surprise that something as noble as patched clothing should be so publicly abhorred and notes his tailors ‘surprise when he asked for a suit of plain and simple clothing.
Most of us have “fake skin” and are to scared to be our true self because society doesn’t approve , but it as simple as laying outside and looking up at the stars and seeing their light.