Question

I have paid no poll tax for six years. i was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as i stood considering the walls of solid stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. â€" "civil disobedience," henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

Answer 1

inwardly free

Step-by-step explanation:

In this excerpt, Thoreau talks about his time in prison, criticizes being locked up by himself, and then comes to terms with the fact that he is now emotionally separate from the people in his town and that they have already paid his taxes.