But dying is a different way, A kind behind the door -- Some historians wish that Emily Dickinson's poems had reached the best American writers of her day: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau or Walt Whitman.

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I mean Thoreau may have been a snob, he may have been smarmy, and he may have wanted you to think he was cool because he sold pencils.

我的意思是,梭罗也许个势利小人,他也许有点爱说奉承话,他也许觉得卖铅笔,会让你们认为他很酷

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But this raises, I think, the central or a central point about Socratic citizenship or Socrates' view of citizenship, this kind of principled disobedience to the law, something like Thoreau's model of civil disobedience.

但这产生了，一个中心的观点,关于苏格拉底式的公民社会,或是苏格拉底对公民社会的看法，这种原则性的反抗法律，有点像梭罗的,公民反抗模式。

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Read Thoreau's Walden. What's Thoreau up to?

读下梭罗的《瓦尔登》他的创作意图是什么

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When Thoreau sits on his little stool outside his cabin at Walden Pond and he hears the train go by over the ridge, and he puts his hands over his ears he doesn't want to hear it-- he's representing something.

在瓦尔登湖的木屋外,梭罗坐在他的小凳子上,他听到火车的声音穿越桥梁,他捂住了耳朵,他一点也不想听到这个声音,他代表着某种想法

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