It is a new world and a new self that he has discovered through his thought and activity at his woodland retreat. He will brag lustily, with a full-throated voice, that he, like the rooster that greets the dawn, has successfully created a way of living that has enabled him to find a "new day" in his life. The tone is one of great confidence and joy the pages to follow will be the narrator's optimistic proclamation of the richness and fullness of his life at Walden Pond.
The reader attempting to approach an understanding and appreciation of Walden should immediately note that here, in this inscription, the germ of the book may be found. I DO NOT PROPOSE TO WRITE AN ODE TO DEJECTION, BUT TO BRAG AS LUSTILY AS CHANTICLEER IN THE MORNING, STANDING ON HIS ROOST, IF ONLY TO WAKE MY NEIGHBORS UP. On this page, the narrator of Walden declares: In some editions of Walden, there is included an inscription page which precedes the first chapter.
0 kommentar(er)
