William Cullen Bryant
One of the most prominent poets from the Romanticism era, William Cullen Bryant is responsible for translating the messages of English Romanticism into something new and American. He gave Romantic poems a new voice. This is clearly evident in one of his many works, "Thanatopsis." This poem illustrates many Romantic qualities: it shuns the artificiality of civilization and seeks unspoiled nature, it contemplates nature's beauty as a path to spiritual and moral development, and it finds beauty and truth within exotic locales. In "Thanatopsis," Bryant is looking to nature for
While Bryant wants the reader to listen to nature's teachings, he also wants him to contemplate nature's beauty. Thus, by using his surroundings, the reader is able to arrive at certain truths about life and death. " He believes nature will help guide its listener to an understanding of the cycle of life, death and rebirth. Go forth, under the open sky, and list/To Nature's teachings. So, by listening to nature's teachings and contemplating them, the reader quite obviously is able to gain important spiritual and moral truths. The reader is able to gain a better understanding of life and death. The reader is able to see that everything returns from whence it came, and that he must live his life to its fullest so he does not have any regrets when he dies. William Cullen Bryant was clearly a Romantic poet, just in his use of imagery and nature in all of his poems.
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