What is the figurative language that, in your opinion, Thoreau uses most in Walden?

Thoreau makes the
greatest use of metaphors and similes in his writing. For example, at the beginning of
, he writes about people who have inherited land and who must farm it to
live. He refers to them as "serfs of the soil" (serfs are workers who must work on the
land in the service of lords), and he likens them to souls being crushed under their loads, much
as a beast of burden might be.

These forms of figurative language allow him
to make his point more vivid. He later writes that men who are crushed under these types of
burdens can not pluck the fruits of life. This is also ain which he compares men who must till
the soil to people who are unable to savor fruits or pick them off their vines. The fruit stands
for the joys of life.