Friday, January 3, 2003

Friendship Comments

Rating: 3.7

I think awhile of Love, and while I think,
Love is to me a world,
Sole meat and sweetest drink,
And close connecting link
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Henry David Thoreau
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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 September 2024

So cutely worded, sharper than the sharpest sword! I cite the two last lines: Their roots are intertwined Insep'rably.. How powerfully ended. TOP Marks!

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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 September 2024

CONTINUED: Friendship' is about the love Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson had for one another. This poem describes the nature of true devotion and how two souls are tied in a bond of love, goodness, and truthfulness.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 September 2024

CONGRATS being chosen so many times by Poem Hunter and Team as The Classic Poem Of The Day. TOP Marks once again, enjoyed this poem about true friendship based on love, so many beautiful methapores the poet used

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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 September 2024

LAST: Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr

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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 September 2024

Before I continue responding, first this from his BIO: He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of

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Dr Dillip K Swain 25 July 2024

A wonderful poem.... appreciated the poet's great stance! !

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Savita Tyagi 25 July 2024

Beautifully poem touching the core of our highest being, Truth Beauty and Love.

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MAHTAB BANGALEE 07 February 2024

There the friendship is alive beyond of all question and query through the love

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Sylvia Frances Chan 07 February 2024

Congratulations on being chosen by Poem Hun ter and Team as The Classic Poem Of The Day. A very beautiful poem. TOP Marks!

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Sylvia Frances Chan 07 February 2024

MY LAST RESPONSE: Although they have separate bodies, their roots are intertwined inseparably

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Sylvia Frances Chan 07 February 2024

It describes the nature of true devotion between friends. The poem emphasizes how two souls are tied in a bond of love, goodness, and truthfulness. Thoreau and his close friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson, share this deep connection, depicted metaphorically as "Two sturdy oaks."

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Sylvia Frances Chan 07 February 2024

It is also a lyrical poem that beautifully portrays the essential role of love in relationships and friendships.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 07 February 2024

A meditation on the nature, beauty, and power of friendship. In summary, when he thinks of love, Thoreau tells us that love is so vast as to be a whole world, linking the earthly to God. Love is the thing which makes him the most happy, though he couldn't say why

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JimmyJohn 14 October 2020

My mum hates me. She beats me please send help

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María 13 October 2020

Tía too long no one cares its stupid

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Shafaq 03 December 2019

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Pratiksha 15 October 2019

Nice poem .....

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Salma Patel 27 May 2019

I think it’s a good experience thing for kids to show how much friends are to them and how there in Times of need

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Varsha M 12 May 2019

A deeply ingrained thoughtful creation.

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Carman 31 March 2019

If anyone has a website for poems I can look at but this poem is amazing I love it

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Henry David Thoreau

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