The poems Living like Weasels and Where I lived, and What I Lived For, are indistinguishable because they each contradict the learning of how to live a life that will make you the happier than you were before. The theme in both of the poems are to fulfill your satisfaction by living the way you want to. Disposing all the negativity, as Thoreau says, "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow in life" (Thoreau 32). We have to suck out all that life gives us because we don’t know if that satisfaction is going to be there forever. If we live shallow lives and don’t go “deeper” when we die we will have regrets of the memories and goals we didn’t achieve. Dillard explains how the weasel are free and can do whatever it wants, and do what
