What are some examples of similes and personification in the book Walden by Henry David Thoreau?

In the first
chapter of Thoreau utilizesin his comparison of age and youth.He writes
"Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not
profited so much as it has lost."Neither age nor youth can literally instruct, profit, or
lose; these are qualities that can only, in the literal sense, apply to human beings and their
constructs.

Later in the first chapter, Thoreau utilizes a , "One
generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels."In this sentence,
Thoreau observes that the initiatives of a generation are rejected and left behind when the next
generation comes along, like boats that are either dead in the water or washed ashore and
vacated by the people sailing in them.

Also in the first chapter, Thoreau
personifies the sun in saying "I never assisted the sun materially in his rising."He
assigns the male gender to this star and affirms that it was important that he was there to
witness its ascent...