Analysis of the “Conclusion” of Thoreau's WaldenThe chapter entitled “Conclusion” is a fitting and compelling final chapter of Thoreau's Walden. Throughout Walden, Thoreau delves into his surroundings, the specifics of nature, and what he was thinking about, without using metaphors and without including any of his touching aphorisms. However, among these sometimes dull sections, there are spectacular and wholly entertaining interludes of great and profound thought from a writer who has become extremely popular in modern America. Its growth in popularity over contemporary favorites like Emerson in our modern era stems from Thoreau calling for an “ideological revolution aimed at simplification” in our lives. This concept and feeling is in extreme opposition to how we actually live our lives today. More and more people have been cut off from spiritual development and the cultivation of mind and body. Often the only time people think about their spirituality and soul is at church or in reference to thinking about their god or religion. The truth is that there is so much more to look at, to marvel at, and to worship than just the image and idea of ​​God in the mind. Thoreau, a man who believed in God himself and alludes to that being many times throughout Walden, lets us know and see that much more in the world is worthy of deep reflection and reverence: everything that earthly nature has to offer. Thoreau's “Conclusion” is an excellent and fitting ending to this great work that teaches us so many things. Deviating from the structure of the rest of the journal, the final chapter does not go through intermittent periods of dry description and then bursts of tasty philosophical insights: the final chapter is a... bright star." The first sentence of this statement presents a paradox that at least it makes you see things in a different light (no pun intended), and in the second sentence Thoreau is saying that a new day comes only to those who are alive and aware enough to receive it. Perhaps in Thoreau's last four verses it does not 'is as deep a meaning as we might be tempted to fathom. It seems to me, however, a very appropriate conclusion to a book that has nature and its ongoing processes at its root, while using this foundation to build an abstract and philosophical castle in the sky. He rooted the castle's foundation in the world directly around him, in which he immersed himself daily, and in his concept of a supernatural force in that same world, his God. Work Cited Thoreau, Henry David. Walden. Walden and Other Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Ed. Joseph Wood Krutch. New York: Bantam, 2001.