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Analysis of Bryant's "Thanatopsis"
The poem, “Thanatopsis,” written by William Cullen Bryant, is a
wonderful literary work which explores the often controversial questions of
death. Within his well written lines Bryant attempts to show the
relationship between death's eternal questions and the ongoing cy ....
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.... next day or event, and by relating this definition to death Bryant
gives new insight on one's fate after earthly existence. When identifying
sleep with death Bryant gives death many characteristics of slumber.
People generally wake from sleep, and Bryant expands this occurrence to
death. Death could simply be a time of rest that retires the bodies' of
earthly beings, and allows the soul to wake. Upon waking the soul is freed,
and enters a new plane of existence. This idea of a spiritual awakening is
demonstrated in “Thanatopsis.” In lines 50 and 51 Bryant wr ....
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