Thanatopsis: An Analysis
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When you are sad, go visit nature because it will lift your spirits
and when you die go pleasantly, for kings also die and nature will tell you
that it is still there with you. That is the theme of this poem by William
Cullen Bryant. This essay will be set up in three sections of the poem
which w ....
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.... section of this poem, Bryant writes that you
will die along with kings and others. The reader should get the most out
of living he/she can possibly get because it is good, and do not be afraid
to die but go pleasantly. This is described in lines thirty-one through
eighty. The best example of this is when Bryants writes: ..."approach thy
grave like one who wraps the drapery of his coach about him and lies down
to pleasant dreams"(79-80)
This poem has taught the reader that death is not a ba ....
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