Thanatopsis

Since the introduction of cuneiform in acient Mesopotamia, writing has been used to spread information, document events, and to keep a history of important events within civilazations. However, text has also served the purpose of entertaining the imaginations of the masses with artistic compositions such as elaborate stories, thoughtful poems, and wimsical plays. The Romantic literary period of American literature is an example of a time in which innovation and originality aided in producing…

The romantic era of America was an important time in America’s culture. Transcendentalism was introduced into our culture. In which people learned from nature and would have inspire Americans in the future. Poe along with other poets took a look at mankind and brought in new ideas about mankind as a whole. Death was also a theme explored. The romantic era changed: man and nature, thoughts about mankind, and death. It was here that transcendentalism showed up in which one learns from nature.…

The three poems I chose for this week’s discussion are “Thanatopsis”, “The death of Lincoln” and “The Harvest Moon”. From my readings I discovered that Bryant, the author of the initial two poems selected for the discussion was an exceptionally bright child, who was familiar with the alphabet by the “tender age” of 16 months. I believe that his early works give evidence to the certainty that he was a child prodigy. Bryant, as explained in the lesson material used English forms in his poems as…

During the Romanticism period there was a great deal of individual thought and personal imagination. It was a time for literary and intellectual movement from when America gained independence from England. Although this literary movement originated in Europe and then transferred on to us, we were establishing cultural independence during the Romanticism time period of about 1800-1860. A fair share of poems came from this time period, as they were a big influence, like Henry Wadsworth…

The Romantic Period in American literature lived up to its namesake - many works of this era strived to romanticize typically negative, taboo topics. Writers of this period sought individualism, imaginativity, aesthetics, and imagery in their compositions. Working with these components enabled authors and artists alike to transform an ordinary subject into something larger than life. Transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote simply of nature in an his essay Nature. Although the…

During the Eighteenth century, many people were increasingly blinded from the real object of life and began to depend on unearthly possessions. To avoid people from falling further into the depths of temptation, Jonathan Edwards preaches his famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” to provide people the opportunity to realize that their soul’s mercy depends on the saving grace of God. However, in his sermon, Edwards makes it clear that man is still destined to go to hell because of…

“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green, does it meet with the traditions of other well-known works of literature? John Green has written several books and is considered to be a #1 bestselling author. He has won awards such as the Printz Medal, and the Edgar Award (Green) but would his recent book hold up under the test of traditions that made books such as “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London a great piece of literature? Historical works of literature written many years ago, these works of…

Romanticism is a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.As a part of this assignment I have been charged with reading three selections of this time period relating to this movement.From reading the selections I really got to better understand the romantic movement .The writing of that was truly trying to convey the writer or main character’s extreme emotion that was felt during his/her…

line of answer is "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" (Whitman 2747). When we die, we are buried in the ground. We are returned, in a sense, from whence we came. God did form Adam, the first man, from the earth. William Cullen Bryant says in "Thanatopsis," "earth that nourishes thee, shall claim thy growth, to be resolved to earth again" (Bryant 2673). The earth has now become our home, our resting-place, our lap, "and here you are the mothers' lap" (Whitman 2747). The life/death cycle…

Man’s greatest invention: the wheel, Man’s worst invention: homework (especially on the weekends) The constraint from which reasoning entrapped differences to the freestyle hippie ideal of living now. Puritans soul search, self scrutiny, self-disciplined and moderate themselves for they praised the light of god. Deists rule to acknowledge what's there while opening the gate to individuality, staying curious but witty. To transcendentalists completely individualistic, self reliant, live in the…