...while Waiden begins widi what has become one of American literature's most ostentatious disclaimers: "I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but...standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up." Yet a closer reading of these works suggests that such contrasts may be overdrawn. Though Waiden was...

...ist Ausdruck seines moralischen Sendungsbewußtseins und stellt Tanners Argumentationspunkt in Frage: „I do not propose to write an ode to dejection,...morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbours up." Thoreau, Walden. S. 1. Wenn Thoreaus Verschriftlichungen seiner Gedanken einen Zweck...

...expression to this same mood, bears as a motto the sentences Thoreau placed at the beginning of Walden:"l do not propose to write an ode to dejection but to...standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up."68 The principal idea that opens this composition in sonata form centers on an approximation of...

...is knowledge, the only evil, ignorance. Socrates I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, hut to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning,...standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up. Hemy David Thoreau CONTENTS Preface riii i. Homage to the Square i 2. Making the External World Safe...

...himself within the pulse of life, to commune with nature intimately, and then to "brag [of his findings] as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up" (Walden, 1971, p. 84; epigraph on title page of first edition). Thoreau's writings — the works of...

...the world of his most striking experiment in applying it. Since his experiment was a success, he did not "propose to write an ode to dejection, but to...standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up." "If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself."...

...chanticleer in the book's epigraph, an epigraph that is repeated word for word in the text itself: "I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but...the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbors up."11 Thoreau is also the "woodnymph" in the chapter on "Sounds." He is "the true husband-man"...

...lesson for the world, a fact attested to by the quotation from the book that he selected for its motto: "I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but...standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up." That Thoreau feels his personal example to be specifically American in character maybe ascertained...

...passages, beginning at the beginning with the epigraph, the only sentence that is repeated in Walden: I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but...standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up. (ii, 84)* This passage foreshadows much that follows. There is the mention of neighbors, and the implied...

...suddenly found that not only did I have something to talk about—I also had something to write about. / do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up. I put...