... are coming together, the United States is coming unglued. Next, America enters the Pre-Civil War period, a controversial time with equally controversial writers, but there remains the same old craving of the mysterious, if not a magnified one. William Cullen Bryant wrote his poem, "Thanatopsis," during this period. Bryant's poem deals with death, and peace in knowing that no matter where a man ... , that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death."69 With The Adventures of Hu...

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• Grade Level: High School