SOURCE: “Thoreau's Poem ‘Sympathy': His ‘Gentle Boy' Identified,” in The Concord Saunterer, Vol. 18, No. 2, December 1985, pp. 20-7.
In the following essay, Pitts argues that the “gentle boy” of the poem “Sympathy” is Thoreau himself.
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