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A Comforting View of Death in William Cullen Bryant’s "Thanatopsis"
The Value Of Nature In Thanatopsis By William Cullen Bryant
Death Is Impossibly Unpredictable By William Cullen Bryant

Content: Bryant is saying that bodies will decay and eventually become one with the earth and nature. Along with becoming a part of nature, Bryant explains that the deceased people will be with some of the finest people who walked the earth. In order to make his readers feel ultimately comfortable, Bryant also says that when everyone dies, they will be with some of the finest people who walked the earth. By the expression “finest people”, Bryant means all the important figures and contributors in history. He says that people will be resting in the same place as these figures are: in the earth. He uses this to comfort his readers by saying that by dying, they
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The Value Of Nature In Thanatopsis By William Cullen Bryant
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writers such as William Cullen Bryant would look to nature for inspiration and also celebrated emotions and the imagination. William Cullen Bryant turned to nature as a way to express his emotions in his poem “Thanatopsis” and his imagination on how life would be like after death or right before death. In “Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryant, it talks about how nature can reflect on your emotions, nature is like a gateway to help relieve all stress. In Thanatopsis, it talks about death and how once
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Death Is Impossibly Unpredictable By William Cullen Bryant
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However, one certainty exists in life: