Explanation:
If something is ironic it's unexpected, often in an amusing way. If you're the world chess champion, it would be pretty ironic if you lost a match to someone who just learned to play yesterday. Ironic is the adjective for the noun irony. In contemporary speech, when we call something ironic, we often mean sarcastic.
Thoreau’s reasons for moving to the woods are; to live in front of essential facts of life, to live sturdily and spartan like, to drive life to a corner, the purpose of thoreaus writing is to inform his journey of living in a cabin that he built in the woods. The lines 26-40 are talking about what thoreau why he is doing this, living by himself and what he hopes to gain from it.
Answer:
I know you probably already done this but I'm going with C