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This book asserts that "the works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them" in its chapter about reading. Its conclusion uses the metaphor of a "strong and beautiful bug" gnawing its way out of an old wooden table to symbolize spiritual resurrection. The narrator observes a fight between red and black ants and attempts to overtake a loon, after stating that "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" in the chapter "Economy." That man explains that he "went to the woods" "to live deliberately." For 10 points, name this book describing the narrator's experiences at the title pond and written by Henry David Thoreau.
This book asserts that "the works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them" in its chapter about reading.
{Walden}; or, Life in the Woods