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Background Themes Walden is a difficult book to read for three reasons First, Thoreau uses surgically precise language, extended, allegorical metaphors, long and complex paragraphs and sentences, and vivid, detailed, and insightful descriptions. Thoreau does not hesitate to use metaphors, allusions, understatement, hyperbole, personification, irony, satire, metonymy, synecdoche, and oxymorons. * WALDEN BY Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, abolitionist, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian and leading transcendentalist. Thoreaus books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. He was a lifelong abolitionist. Thoreau is sometimes cited as an individualist anarchist. Though Civil Disobedience seems to call for improving rather than abolishing government. July 4, 1845 Thoreau began a two-year pilot, he moved to far away from the hometown of Concord, the beautiful Walden secondary forest, tried a simple seclusion. He left Walden Pond on September 6, 1847. Walden a collection of essays published in 1854, documented the career and two months of his two years at Walden Pond. He erected huts, wasteland farming, writing, reading, living a very simple, primitive life. Walden is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. Published in 1854, it details Thoreaus experiences over the course of two years in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreaus other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendenta