Being alone in nature is the best thing to help a person be happy and find him or herself. That is the message both Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and Emily Dickinson's How Happy is the Little Stone. In the How Happy is the Little Stone, the poem starts out with “How Happy is the little Stone That rambles on the Road alone,” this shows that the rock is happy because he is all alone. We know he is all alone because the poem states that “And independent as the Sun” the speaker is trying to show that he has things around him, but he is the only one of his kind like the sun is surrounded by planets. moons and other rocks but no other suns. Lastly, the speaker is showing on the quote “Fulfilling absolute Decree In casual simplicity” that it is
