Monday, August 25, 2008

“Where I lived, and What I Lived For” 12

Sometimes even the slightest stylistic feature can work as rhetorical strategy. Discuss the effect of the alliterative phrase “Freshest and frost and fire” in paragraph 7.

1 comment:

Min Jae said...

With the phrase Thoreau gives out in paragraph 7, it comes out and hits us directly when it is read. Since it is all in a tiny statement and not in three different examples it just comes as a powerful blow. The passage is used as Thoreau talks how we should live life, in the most primitive ways that it should be done with the things given and not the things we make. The three words, freshest frost and fire, are different settings which Thoreau uses to show that even in different places we should work for it to achieve a life without burden.