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Thanatopsis. By William Cullen Bryant. To him who in the love of Nature holds. Communion with her visible forms, she speaks. A various language; for his gayer hours. She has a voice of gladness, and a smile. And eloquence of beauty, and she glides. Into his darker musings, with a mild. And healing sympathy, that steals away.
‘Thanatopsis’ by William Cullen Bryant speaks on the nature of death and how one should accept the inevitability of its coming and therefore live peacefully. Throughout the lines of this fairly long poem, Bryant speaker talks directly to a listener who has professed fear of dying.
An 1878 portrait of William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis" is an early poem by the American poet William Cullen Bryant. Meaning 'a consideration of death', the word is derived from the Greek 'thanatos' (death) and 'opsis' (view, sight).
"Thanatopsis" was written by William Cullen Bryant—probably in 1813, when the poet was just 19. It is Bryant's most famous poem and has endured in popularity due its nuanced depiction of death and its expert control of meter , syntax , imagery , and other poetic devices.
Seinen literarischen Durchbruch erreichte er mit dem Gedicht Thanatopsis, das er bereits 1810 verfasst, aber erst 1817 anonym publiziert hatte. 1824 heiratete er in Great Barrington Frances Fairchild, legte dort alle seine Ämter nieder und ließ sich zusammen mit seiner Ehefrau in New York nieder.
Thanatopsis. William Cullen Bryant. 1794 –. 1878. To him who in the love of Nature holds. Communion with her visible forms, she speaks. A various language; for his gayer hours. She has a voice of gladness, and a smile. And eloquence of beauty, and she glides.
William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis translates roughly to “viewing death,” thanatos meaning death and opsis meaning sight. For the sake of this poem, the meaning of the word is closer to…
