Write a summary of the following selections and identify a direct quote that you feel best expresses its main idea.
“Where I Lived and What I Lived For”
live life only dealing with the essentials
Quote: “To drive into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms…”
“Sounds”
He listens to the sounds of society, how they interact with other people to be amused, but he talks about how went into nature and just amused himself.
Quote: “I had this advantage, at least, in my mode of life, ever those who were obliged to look abroad for amusement, to society and the theater, that my life itself was becomemy amusement and never ceased to be novel.
“Brute Neighbors”
Exaggerated the greatness of the ants to a heroic level to show how similar people are in their behaviors. Therefore, you can find a reflection fo what we are in nature. By doing this, it shows how unheroic we are.
Quote: “I was surprised to find that the chips were covered with such combatants, that it was not a duellem, but a bellum, a war between two races of ants, the red always pitted against the black, and frequently two red ones to one black .”
“The Pond in Winter”
The first paragraph shows that the speaker of the poem wakes up to an answered dream that we can sit there and ask ourselves what life is all about or we can go out and experience it for ourselves and find a non-verbal answer. The next few paragraphs talk about how the speaker is inspired by the fishermens way of life. They do not care about the authorities and that they do not live by “the book” (Bible). They do not care about following the rules and learn through their own experiences because they are not artificial people but rather they are natural.
Quote: “But there was dawning Nature, in whom all creatures live, looking in at my broad windows with serene and satisfied face, and no question on her lips.”
“Spring”
Everything is starting to move and change in the beginning of Spring. Regret should be let go and everything be forgiven. Creation of the entire world out of nothing. When winter changes to spring, to the eye everything seems to just blossom.
Quote: “As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.”
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