Title Thanatopsis is an entrancing poem which portrays death as a sweet return to the ultimate nourisher: Mother Nature. The poet, William Cullen Bryant uses the personification of nature and death, and shifts in mood to not only acknowledge the bitter ache of loss, but to soften the sharpness of the injury, by opening the reader’s mind to the other more positive aspects of death. In addition, he uses grief counselling techniques, and realism to get his message across.
In the first couple of stanzas of the poem, there is a heavy use of personification. Nature is portrayed as a sweet, graceful, and comforting figure; a friend, and a shoulder to cry on. Bryant starts off his piece by describing someone who could be seen as a friend, Which
In the first couple of stanzas of the poem, there is a heavy use of personification. Nature is portrayed as a sweet, graceful, and comforting figure; a friend, and a shoulder to cry on. Bryant starts off his piece by describing someone who could be seen as a friend, Which