"Most men live lives of quiet desperation."
- Thoreau
I think that this poem is an observation of a sort. I believe that Thoreau means that people tend to live in their own box of sheltered sadness, in that they never followed their dreams, they never achieved their goals, and etc. That they are enclosed in Society's set rules, and don't try to break free. I like how it mentions "most" because it's not all people who live like that. Some people really do live. I get an image of a business man, walking to work in the morning, glancing at his watch to make sure he's not late. He looks unhappy. Next to him is another man, an old man with white hair and crinkles around the eyes. But they're "happy lines". He smiles because he's happy so often because he's done with his life what he's wanted to do, and not what others have told him to do.
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