LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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on a famous battleground
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in Concord, Massachusetts
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in the woods near a pond
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with his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Detailed explanation-1: -Walden is the product of the two years and two months Thoreau lived in semi-isolation by Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1845, 27 year-old Henry David Thoreau built a simple house on the shore of Walden Pond on land owned by his friend and influential writer Ralph Waldo Emerson. He lived here for two years, two months and two days.
Detailed explanation-3: -On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau decided it was time to be alone. He settled in a forest on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and built himself a tiny cabin. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, ” he famously wrote in Walden.
Detailed explanation-4: -Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was born and lived nearly all his life in Concord, Massachusetts, a small town about twenty miles west of Boston.
Detailed explanation-5: -For two years, beginning in 1845, writer and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau lived on the shores of Walden Pond. The purpose was to acquire a better appreciation of nature and find an escape from the surrounding world. He chronicled his experience in the book Walden; Or, Life in the Woods.