Walden Chapter 9 Notes - Ponds

Walden Chapter 9 Notes - Ponds

1. Author likes to go westward in the town when's he already tired of the same thing.

   • There was a fishermen that would always stop by his house and the author would sometimes go fishing with and have great conversations.
     • Sometimes, at night, the author would go into the boat and start playing the flute and reminiscence.
     • Author would sometimes do midnight fishing too, and sometimes he would get a little spooked.

2. Walden is blue at one time and green another, even from the same point of view.

   • The water is so transparent that the bottom can easily be discerned at the depth of twenty-five or thirty feet.
     • During the winter is when the author realized that the pond was not bottomless.
       • There is another pond like Walden Pond, called White Pond, in Nine Acre Corner, about two and a half miles west.
         • This new pond was just as beautiful as Walden Pond, even a replacement, and if people could not find Walden that new pond was a good enough replacement.
         • The pond rises and falls. It is commonly higher in the winter and lower in the summer, though not corresponding to general wet and dryness.
           • The rising of Walden Pond makes it hard to walk around and kills the shrubs and tress which have sprung up about its edge since the last rise.
             • Some people have been puzzled to tell how the shore became so regulary paved.
               • There are theories as too why
             • The Pond water temperature varied throughout the seasons.
             • The pond has many beautiful fish in it.
             • The shore is irregular enough to not be monotonous
             • Author believes a lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature.
               • When the conditions are nice, sunny, and warm, and you are looking from a great perspective, Walden pond is the most beautiful thing on Earth
                 • In such a day, in September or October, Walden is a perfect forest mirror, set round with stones as previous to my as if fewer or rarer.
             • One November afternoon, in the calm at the end of a rain-storm of several days' duration, when the sky was still completely overcast and the air was full of mist, the author observed that the pond was remarkably smooth, so that it was difficult to distinguish its surface ; though it no longer reflected the bright tints of October, but the sombre November colors of the surrounding hills .
             • Walden Pond is nice in any weather

3. A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. it is continually receiving new life and motion from above.

4. The author had heard from other people about the history of Walden Pond and the treasures that exist within the pond.

   • Author learned how to paddle a boat on Walden, but not without mistakes.
   • Walden is a wonder of the world that requires your full attention. It is so pure/

5. There is another pond about a mile east of Walden, called Flint's or Sandy Pond.

   • It is bigger than Walden.
   • Author did not like the name given to this beautiful pond
   • There is also another Pond called Goose pond that is found on the way to Flint's

6. All ponds are beautiful