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The final two lines of the first stanza meant to appeal to readers sense of "c) hearing".
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You would expect to read the details that are within the essay. Sometimes, essays give you a strange thesis statement to throw you off guard.
Answer:
When Thoreau says <em>superfluous wealth</em> he refers to money that is not needed or there is more of it than enough and that with all that money can be bought just things that we do not need. Those things make us blind for what should be really important in life. As he goes on in the second sentence - we can have money, but we can not buy what our soul needs. Life can be experienced far more fully when living simply.
