Death

Term Paper Title	Death
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death

Many poems are written about death. The two poets William Cullen Bryant and
Emily Dickinson were very influential trancendental writers. Bryant writing Thanatopsis
And Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" are basically more alike
then than they are similar for the fact that there views on Death are the same, but what
happens to you after is what is disimiliar,although Dickinsons and Bryants poems are very
different as seen in specific detail. As in both poems death is present, the way the two
authors express it however is a bit unsimiliar.
        One of many things that is similar is the fact that both authors present there poems in
first person view,but the way they describe what happens to you after death  is what is
very dissimilar. In the poem when she says "We passed the school where children played
,We passed the the fields of blazing grain," shows her use of Idealisation of
Nature.Bryants whole poem is Idealisation of nature, by choosing but one sentence would
be cutting the poem short.By both authors using the same romantic element is just another
example of how they are similar.
       Thanatopsis and Because i could not stop for Death,are somewhat dissimilar , for
instance when in Dickinsons poem when she says "We slowly drove , he knew no haste,"
she is referring about death...

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