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basically connotative means emotions and association connected to a word it can be positive or negative depending on how this word is used
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The Thoreau feel that the people who serve the state have the same worth as dogs or horses and that they should receive no more respect then a man of straw or a lump of dirt, so these people feel that working for the state rarely make any moral distinctions,and it also says in the paragraph that they are likely to serve the devil. So by this article we can clearly see that they are apposed to any form of serving the state.
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That you've been all around the world multiple times
The narrator goes to visit Usher, because his friend Roderick sent him a letter requesting his company. Roderick wrote he was feeling physically and emotionally ill so the narrator rushes to see him.