earnest but naive in retrospect
Thoreau in 1862 saw the fences going up and was alarmed. Reading him from an America that’s now “basically all fences” makes his earnestness suspect in a different way than Frost’s narrator. History made him naive.
Thoreau in 1862 saw the fences going up and was alarmed. Reading him from an America that’s now “basically all fences” makes his earnestness suspect in a different way than Frost’s narrator. History made him naive.