Quote Reponse 1

Henry David Thoreau, Where I lived, and What I lived For, Page 24

“The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour.”

What this quote is saying is that the most impressionable time of day is morning but this quote does not just stop at the morning, for it continues on to say the specific time in the morning which is most memorable. The time that Thoreau feels is most vulnerable in the morning is the “awaking hour”. The time that Thoreau is taking about could literally mean the time that he is waking up. Or he could be speaking metaphorically, where he uses the word “awaking” to say he is trying to become “alive” and experience nature. For it is stated later in his work that by working in nature and living in the wilderness he will be able to “live”. So “awake” equals “alive” to him thus he likes to be alive hence Thoreau find joy in the “awakening hour” of the morning