Thanatposis

Bryant immediately introduces his notion of spiritual unity among humans and nature in the first line of the poem.

Communion with her visible forms, she speaks

A various language; for his gayer hours

She has a voice of gladness, and a smile

And eloquence of beauty, and she glides

Into his darker musings, with a mild

And gentle sympathy, that steals away

Their sharpness, ere he is aware (Line 1).

From this opening line of the poem the reader is aware of Bryant’s use of metaphorical language to describe the bond in which nature holds with man. According to the first book of Genesis, God created all of nature and d

Bryant goes on to describe and almost tell the reader of the story not to fear the final moments of life for all that is and was created “Will share thy destiny.”(Line 61) Like The Bible, Bryant describes the afterlife as a glorious heaven where “The rivers that move in majesty”(lines 40-41) are “but the solemn decorations all of the great tomb of man.”(Lines 44-45) He is telling the reader not to fear death because there is a better place where everything in nature will return and be reborn. This theme is stated by Bryant throughout the poem and is identical to the teachings of the Christian Bible. This theme can be related back to the beginning of Thanatopsis where Bryant describes the unity of nature and man. These two themes are framework of Bryant’s grand theme that everything that God has created will become one in the afterlife, therefore everything is one during existence.

Whatever point of view the reader construes out of this work, the theme is the same. The evidence that Bryant based Thanatopsis on the theological teachings of death and resurrection, found in the Bible, is apparent throughout the poem. The ideas that have stood the test of time are s

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