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Page 66
... Thanatopsis " survived its trials while the others failed is not easy to determine , but the key to its mastery and power seems to lie in its curious career of premature publication and consistent revision . As this chapter will explain ...
... Thanatopsis " survived its trials while the others failed is not easy to determine , but the key to its mastery and power seems to lie in its curious career of premature publication and consistent revision . As this chapter will explain ...
Page 79
... Thanatopsis " became a Romantic sermon . The division of the poem into three parts is clearly indicated by the stanzaic patterns . The first section ( through line 30 ) establishes , in lieu of revealed truth , the authority of Nature ...
... Thanatopsis " became a Romantic sermon . The division of the poem into three parts is clearly indicated by the stanzaic patterns . The first section ( through line 30 ) establishes , in lieu of revealed truth , the authority of Nature ...
Page 82
... Thanatopsis " had also pointed out , Nature supplies its own beauty to the graves of mankind : Nature , rebuking the ... Thanatopsis , " the notion that death is lonely . Whereas " Thanatopsis " had argued that the dead join with others ...
... Thanatopsis " had also pointed out , Nature supplies its own beauty to the graves of mankind : Nature , rebuking the ... Thanatopsis , " the notion that death is lonely . Whereas " Thanatopsis " had argued that the dead join with others ...
Contents
Chronology | 13 |
The Poems of Nature | 39 |
The Poem of Death | 65 |
Copyright | |
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Ages Alison American Literature Antiquity of Freedom Apennines appear artist association of ideas beauty Bishop Porteus blank verse Bryant's poetry circle Cole consciousness creative critical death dialogue diction early Earth editor elegy Embargo Emerson emotional eternal experience expression feeling flower Fringed Gentian genius Godwin grave heart Hymn iambic pentameter Ibid imagery images imagination insight intellectual John Lothrop Motley language lines literary lyric McDowell metaphor mind Monument Mountain moral natural objects North American Review Northrup Frye Parke Godwin passage Peter Bryant poems of progress poet poet's poetic political Post Prairies praise problem Prose Writings Putnam's Magazine quatrain reader religious rhetoric rhyme rhythms Romantic scene sense sensibility sentiment sermon social solitude sonnet speaks stanza structure suggestive symbol Thanatopsis thee theme Thomas Cole thou thought tion tone truth vision voice Waterfowl William Cullen Bryant York young