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Essay Archive - Analysis of Bryant's "Thanatopsis"
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 cycle of
nature and life. Upon concluding the poem many readers are able to
reaffirm their faith of an afterlife, while others are left aimlessly
pondering this strange possibility.
Throughout the poem Bryant creates images which connect death and
sleep. In fact, once the reader gets halfway throu....
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