Walden reflection essay

When reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau, I was interested by the imagery and the similes and metaphors of the story.
In Walden, the imagery is evident almost everywhere in the story. When Thoreau thinks in his mind through his imagination, he sees farms, eats apples, and lived in the imagination through a winter and a summer. He also talks about the Hollowell farm and how it looked like. It was half a mile from the nearest neighbor, bounding on the river, was gray, ruinous, and dilapidated in figure. It was like there was a long gap between when the last owner had it and Thoreau bought it. He also describes the woods and the cabin. The cabin was airy and plastered, and the white door and the windows gave the cabin an airy look. The woods were, as he said, was the place to front the essential facts of life.
Also, Thoreau mentions several mythical people and some famous old people. When he talks about Atlas, there is the comparison that he is ready to explore and “take upon himself the world on his shoulders”. Another comparison was about Olympus in that Thoreau says that it is but the outside of the earth, as it is the home of the gods. He also explains, when he lives in the woods, that he wants to live Spartanlike, or hardy. A metaphor is shown when he talks about ants and that the comparison of the Trojans in battle is like error upon error. A simile about our lives is shown when Thoreau says that our lives are like a German Confederacy, in which there is a loose union and no common government. There is also one about Croesus, in that if we had the wealth of Croesus, it would not affect us in our goals.