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Henry Thoreau writings
Henry Thoreau was an intuitive, creative writer; he drew his art by daily observation of his life occurrences. His works documented in a journal, with an entry of everyday occurrence (Thoreau 4). For instance, he recorded the entry of 1845 on a day they would celebrate independence. He said, “I want to go soon and live away by the pond, where I shall hear only the wind whispering among the reeds.” as indicated by (Harton para 10). In his journal entry of 2 September 1851, he documents that art was as a result of the combination of his physical, spiritual and intellectual energies. He is a strong promoter of nature and believes all elements in nature are harmonized.
Figurative Language
Figurative language is the kind of communication that seek to emphasize a point, to compare things or persons, objects or situation, and to make a point clear during an explanation. Six major facets of figurative language include; personification, simile, metaphor, synecdoche, puns, and hyperbole. Synecdoche is the use of a word to represent the actual meaning of whatever is being described. Similes compare things with others but unlike similes it does not use “as” or “like”. Hyperbole is a figurative language that shows exaggeration in a situation as shown in (Wiehardt, para 4). Personification is the giving of life to inanimate object or animals human characteristics. Puns are the use of humor in writing. In the poem Tall Ambrosia, by Thoreau, he used personification by saying the proud flower is pouring the yellow dust on his shoes.

He also says the weed is humble and immortal giving it life as shown in (Thoreau line 5 and 6). Thoreau uses hyperbole in by saying the shoes after being powdered all over by the proud flower dust; they were bearing the marks of their adventure, he has exaggerated the personification of the shoes to an extent of having an adventure. Adventures require people active participation and the shoes can never be adventurous without being engaged by the one wearing them. Thoreau has also used synecdoche by saying the other name of Roman wormwood is Ambrosia elatior as called by the learned as shown in (Thoreau line 1 and 2).
Sound
He used sounds to create a tone or emphasis at some point. He employs alteration that is the stylistic device where a consonant in a more than two words is used, and the outcome is consonantal alliteration. He uses alliteration to create the emphasis on the nature of the garlic as gloss line 13 of the poem Tall Ambrosia. Rhyme is the repetition of words with similar sounds in the last syllable. Thoreau uses rhyme at the line as shown in (Thoreau 16 and 17) of the poem in the words rather and gather. The two words ends with a rhyming sound that give the poem rhyme.
The Seeming Digression
He used the literal style to elaborate different things that could lead to a flashback or future telling and skillfully returning to the main subject. Thoreau has used this skill in chapter five to explain how he enjoys solitude but still connected to others. At the beginning of Chapter 5 of Walden and the essay, in the (Harton para 1), he is at the pond walking along its shore, he describes nature and how he was enjoying its product. Shortly after he changes the stage to his house in the second paragraph and starts to explain how his intelligence can help him determine the kind of visitor regarding age and gender. Later in the in the (Harton para 5), he gets back to the subject of describing nature after straying in the past three paragraphs describe visitors and traveler. He says that “as the rain was falling he was forced to remain in his house, listening to the noises it made as he enjoyed the warmth inside the house, it brought him a lot of satisfaction.” As shown in (Harton para 5).
Social Critique
Thoreau in the need to promote social order, he says that people should not resist the leadership of any type offered by the government. He states that any form of resistance even in the face of oppression can create a social instability. In other words, he is against civil governments
Syntax and sentence structure as indicated in paragraph one. Other political philosophers like John Brown in (Thoreau and Howard para 5), would suggest resisting an oppressive government by the use of violence. The ideas of Thoreau are based on maintaining peace as nature is peaceful.
Thoreau has used repetitively in his journal where he recorded his experience about nature. In his entry of his journey of March 18, 1858, he is quoted that “Each year starts and many things have been forgotten like the joyful songs of the birds, but once we have been reminded of it, we remember it like it was a dream”. The use of words like the dream and the emphasis on the fact that nature does not bring sadness shows how he believes in the goodness of nature (Harton para 11). His journal entries are praising nature and showing how all good outcomes are linked to it.
Work cited
Harton, R. “Henry Thoreau as a Model for Nature Writing.” Henry Thoreau as a Model for Nature Writing. Web. 17 Nov. 2015.
Thoreau, Henry David, and Howard Zinn. The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform. Ed. Wendell Glick. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Thoreau, Henry David. “Walden. 1854.” The Portable Thoreau (1971): 496.
Thoreau, Henry. “Tall Ambrosia Poem.” Poemhunter.com. Poem Hunter. Web. 17 Nov. 2015. <http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tall-ambrosia/>
Wiehardt, Ginny T. “6 Types of Figurative Language You Can Use in Your Fiction.” About.com Careers. Web. 17 Nov. 2015. <http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/crafttechnique/tp/figuresofspeech.htm>.