William Cullen Bryant Portfolio
1. What does Bryant suggest about death in “Thanatopsis”?
2. Can “Thanatopsis” be read as a transcendentalist text?
3. Can “Thanatopsis” be related to Poe’s poems discussed earlier?
4. Please find three examples figures of speech in “Thanatopsis”?
5. What does Bryant suggest about white men in the poem “An Indian at the Burying Place of his Fathers”?
6. Can this poem be read as a Transcendentalist work?
7. What is the tone of the poem?
8. Please find three examples of figures of speech in the poem.