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5 comments:
Thoreau is emphasizing how people now-a-days are too busy thinking and planning about the future to enjoy the present. Putting the future before the past is much like the design of a hysteron proteron, in which the natural sequence of events are inversed in order to place emphasis on the occurrence in question. Thoreau’s metaphor of starvation catches reader’s attention by doing the opposite of an understatement – he exaggerates to make a point. He brings to our awareness that by agonizing about what might happen, we are bringing it upon ourselves by mentally experiencing the same pain that we are so desperately trying to avoid.
Thoreau says this because he is trying to make an interesting point regarding how humans want to speed through life. His intentions are for us to enjoy what we feel, smell, and see, instead of ignoring the beauties of the world. He is trying to emphasize how people only do things to get it over with, and this causes us to live a complicated life for not fully understanding it. He is also trying to tell us that we are thinking so much about the future that we can't enjoy what we do, much like living in our minds.
Thoreau writes about how people hurry to much in their life's. The phrase is just another way to support the idea. It shows how people focus to much on how their future will be like. People work hard today and do not even take a minute to laugh just becuase there is a huge reliance on tomorrow. A person can not always rely on tomorrow. Thoreau is really trying to show that people should have more appreciation for the little things that come only once in a life time.
Thoreau states how people place their standards on tomorrow and not today. A big part of everyone's goal in life should be to enjoy living in it. However, humans live in a hurry and pound their heads in the news or work. With a strong metaphor, Thoreau is trying to tell the reader how people are missing on the most important, yet seemingly insignificant to them matters. Tomorrow may not come, so people should enjoy today as much as they can and if there is a tomorrow, let the cycle repeat.
This phrase is the answer to Thoreau’s question stating “Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?” (3) This phrase summarizes the whole paragraph because it clearly proves the point that life is rushed through and always thought about ahead of time. Instead of having life lead the way, people plan their way, knowing what is going to happen ahead of time instead of letting life take its course.
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