Further Reading on Thanatopsis by Cullen Bryant

If this poem could be summarised (and I actually doubt it, since I have never liked to summarise texts, because I think summaries in literature are only a subjective reflection on what the person who is commenting the text wants to convey at a particular moment), its theme may be mainly pantheistic, that is, nature is a reflection of the feelings of men, at the very beginning of the poem. Afterwards, if we continue reading, nature as a whole is thus presented as the tomb of men, where neither social classes nor other earthy categories are distinguished. A second deep reading will make us realise the fact that there is no God in the poem, and that our final destiny is then that of reabsorption, where “pleasant dreams” wait for us.

Once can found several versions of this poem, that I will try to explain later. The version I have chosen is the one published in 1821 in t

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