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A classic poem that reflects on the cycle of life and death in nature and invites us to commune with the visible forms of nature. The poet imagines the last hour of a human being and the eternal resting-place of all the dead in the great tomb of man.
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‘Thanatopsis’ by William Cullen Bryantspeaks 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 speakertalks directly to a listener who has professed fear of dying. He spends time describing the long history of death and the many wise ...
The themes in ‘Thanatopsis’ are clear from the first few lines. The poet is interested in exploring death first, and nature, spirituality, and the unity of the human condition, second. The latter, the connection we all share due to our common humanity, is seen through the poet’s use of the second-person narrative perspective. He addresses the liste...
‘Thanatopsis’ by William Cullen Bryant is an eighty-two-line poem that is contained within one stanza of text. The lines do not follow a specific pattern of rhyme but there are numerous examples of blank verse or unrhymed iambic pentameter. This means that the lines in question contain five sets of two beats, the first of these is unstressed and th...
Bryant makes use of several literary devices in ‘Thanatopsis’. These include but are not limited to examples of alliteration, enjambment, caesura, and simile. When one is considering the structure that this poem takes, it is very important to take a look at the instances of enjambment and caesura. The first, enjambment, occurs when one line runs in...
Lines 1-8
In the first lines of ‘Thanatopsis’, the speaker begins describing the connection that some, “he,” can have to nature. This person experiences their emotions reflected in the world around them. When “she,” (Nature personified) speaks to him, it is in a “voiceof gladness”. Nature smiles upon this person with beauty and glides “Into his darker musings”. This refers to nature’s ability to improve further the happier moments of life and make lighter the darker moments. She comes with a “healing s...
Lines 9-17
The eighth line of ‘Thanatopsis’is split in the middle. “When thoughts” starts a new sentence that is then enjambed into line nine. The speaker now brings the poem to its main theme, death. He describes how this person at times turns to think about the “bitter hour” of death. This comes “like a blight” (a good example of a simile) over his “spirit”. Thoughts of death consume this person. It acts as a disease, making this person ill. They go into great detail as they dwell on the inevitable. T...
Lines 18-31
Line eighteen of ‘Thanatopsis’ continues the theme of death. These lines are dark, alluding to the absence of light after death. The sun will no longer embrace “Thy image” on his course through the sky. His light won’t penetrate the ground where one is buried or into the ocean. Your face, the speaker says, will be lost forever to the light. Other changes will come over your world as well, the speaker adds. The “Earth” which once allowed the listener to grow and flourish, will “claim / Thy gro...
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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).
Learn about the themes, symbols, poetic devices, and context of Bryant's most famous poem, Thanatopsis. The poem explores the inevitability of death and the unity of nature, and finds peace in the harmony of both.
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.
A classic poem about the cycle of life and death, nature and immortality, by the American Romantic poet William Cullen Bryant. Read the full text, analysis and context of Thanatopsis, one of the most anthologized poems in American literature.
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…
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