Craft lessons
- Collect poetry about the places you’ve been to.
- Started with poetry then history
- Description of the geography
- Thoreau talked to farmers and reported this (oral history)
- Sensual descriptions on being “there.”
- Descriptions of flora and fauna.
- General descriptions of people.
- Poetry in between paragraphs.
- Learn verbose poetic descriptions.
- Study how to write detailed and good observations.
References
Thoreau, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc., 1963.
Walls, Laura Dassow. Henry David Thoreau: A Life. First edition, University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Into the pages of his big new notebook, the “long book,” he sowed passages at intervals like seeds in furrows, giving each one room to germinate and grow.