thanatopsis
By using romantic elements along with didactic literature William Cullen Bryant reveals a comforting and reassuring outlook on mortality. After reading this poem and seeing such strong descriptive words and such expressive figurative language one can truly understand and almost envision how dying could be a pleasant, even romantic experience. ?Yet not to thine eternal resting-place shalt thou retire alone (Bryant 32)?Thou shalt lie down with patriarchs of the infant world- with kings, ?