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                             Introduction                             
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"Walking" is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the
Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. It was written between 1851 and
1860, but parts were extracted from his earlier journals. Thoreau read
the piece a total of ten times, more than any other of his lectures.
"Walking" was first published as an essay in the 'Atlantic Monthly'
after his death in 1862.


                                Themes                                
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* Self-reflection
* The wild and society
* Exploration


                            Writing style                             
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"Walking" has an autobiographical side and reflects the author’s
personal experiences. As Rebecca Solnit has stated in 'Wanderlust: A
History of Walking', the rhythm of walking could be the sources of
music, conversation, thoughts, and literature. In over ten years of
walking, Thoreau kept observing nature, organizing his thought, and
considering the best way to express his lecture; his diary shows what
elements in his daily life influenced his environmental view and
motivated him to write it. Above all, the author’s correspondence with
friends provides not only his lecture career but also his works and
his writing process. As a result, his essay is told by the voice of
the confident narrator, given some authority. Moreover, using
allusion, he succeeded in not only understanding the essay broadly but
also obtaining a form of poetry, and with his lecture and the new
writing style, "Walking" became a new critique of the existing
society.


                               See also                               
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*'Walden'
*"The Old Marlborough Road", a poem within "Walking"


                               Sources                                
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*[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1022
"Walking" at Project Gutenberg]


                            External links                            
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* Walking. As published in Atlantic Monthly, 1862.
https://www.walden.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Walking-1.pdf
* Nationalism and the Nature of Thoreau's "Walking" Andrew Menard.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00229


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