The Poetry Of William Cullen Bryant And Emily Dickinson: The Theme Of Death

The Poetry of William Cullen Bryant and Emily Dickinson: The Theme of 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
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