Comparing Poems 'Thanatopsis And The Ambitious Guest'

She makes it clear that the main point is to live your life to the fullest and not be in fear of death because it is inevitable. She believes there is two types of deaths, a good version and a bad version. She describes a good death as being mentally stable and not experiencing a lot of pain and suffering. Her attitude towards death is relatively positive but then she brings up the question of quantity versus quality.

William Cullen Bryant wrote “Thanatopsis” at the very young age of seventeen. The word thanatopsis is defined as, “a view or contemplation of death.” It surprised me when I learned that he had written such a deep and detailed poem about nature and death when he was my age. I had to read the poem a couple of times before I even began to understand Bryant’s wording and what he meant by it all.

Chris McCandless didn’t have it easy growing up in his household. His parents would always fight which he didn’t want to be in that house and around that environment. McCandless one day had enough of he drama and set out on a journey. His journey would impact his life, as he was out of society and in the wild. His journey would lead to his death, but seemed like he achieved by living in the wild other than in society.

Through the poem’s tone, metaphors used, and symbols expressed the poem portrays that fear can make life seem charred or obsolete, but in reality life propels through all seasons and obstacles it faces. The poem begins with a tone of conversation, but as it progresses the tone changes to a form of fear and secretiveness. The beginning and ending line “we tell

Everyone with a family cares for each other, even when they are dying or want to die. Sometimes when family members are dying, it brings the family close together, which is a good thing. But sometimes the one family member feels left out or they don’t what is happening in their life, so they want to die, which is not always the best answer. “The Hitchhiker” by Lucille Fletcher is a play about a son that is going to California for a trip. “ An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” is a short story that is about Peyton who died hanging from a bridge.

Through personification the speaker depicts death as a gentlemen, and not someone who brutally takes our lives quickly, but in a courteous manner. The use of symbolism to describe three locations as three stages of life. These three stages are used to show our childhood,adulthood, and us as elderly soon about to meet death, The speaker also uses imagery to show that all death is a simple cold, then we go to a resting place which is the grave, and from there on we move on toward eternity. Death is a part of life that we all need to embrace, and learn that it is not meant to be

Though the poet tries to create a happy mood at the beginning through her use of rhyme: “fell through the fields” and “the turn of the wheels” as well as reference to the “mother singing”, all is not happy. The word "fell" in the gives a sense of something sad and uncomfortable happening. This sense of sadness is heightened by one of the brothers “bawling Home, Home” and another crying. There is the use of personification in describing the journey: “the miles rushed back to the city” which expresses poet's own desire to go back, and the clever use of a list which takes us back to the place she has just left: “the city, the street, the house, the vacant rooms where we didn’t live

From the beginning, he guides the protagonist through a midlife crisis that is almost sure to go wrong. He is a wealthy man, lost in a suspicious part of town in an expensive car. This has trouble written all over it. People in these areas are desperate for money, and robbing a rich man in his Mercedes-Benz would be a more than possible event that could ensue. Most fatal of all however, and most ironic of all, is that “[he is so] intent upon the future that…

Though viewed as such an important figure to the public and to himself, the most important event in his life, his death, occurs without notice, despite his conspicuous position when it occurs. In the end, the truth catches up to him and he is finally able to remember the reality of his past in the final moments before his

In William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis,” Bryant speaks of death, saying that it is just a part of nature, as if he is trying to tell us that we should not be afraid of dying. When analyzing Bryant’s “Thanatopsis”; I find that there are many different ways that Bryant’s poem can be interpreted, and I can see that the shift, attitude, connotation, and meter are all big factors in his poem. Bryant’s “Thanatopsis,” is very much about death, and how it is closely related with nature. In the beginning Bryant acts as if death is something scary and sad, “…last bitter hour come like a blight…” (line 9) and “… the all beholding sun shall see no more…” (line 18), then towards the end he changes, acting as if he has come to peace with it, and accepted that everyone will die, “Yet not to thine eternal resting-place shalt thou retire alone…” (lines 31-32) and “… like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”

Nature is a beautiful component of planet earth which most of us are fortunate to experience; Ralph Waldo Emerson writes about his passion towards the great outdoors in a passage called Nature. Emerson employs metaphors and analogies to portray his emotions towards nature. Emerson begins by writing, “Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers.” , this is a metaphor for how we think; all our knowledge is based on what is recorded in the olden days and a majority of our experiences are vicarious instead of firsthand encounters.

While the narrator is going by his daily routine of listening to the men go into the tipple, the deaths, weather, and everything else the readers are learning as many life lessons as he does. Throughout the book he learns not to take things for granted, but to also have hope and that if you believe in something, pursue it or

He than takes a trip to a past, where he tries to learn his lesson, of how he became the person he is today. Fist it was a visit to when he started to love money over love, which ended to him listening on a person just like him. He had everything he wanted, but died due to his riches and what he ended up like.

While both poems use literary devices in their material, the ones they choose differ. In the poem "On My First Son" Jonson uses rhyme to express the speakers love for his son. The speaker rhymes the words "joy" (1) and "boy" (2) to show us how his boy brought him joy. The speaker rhymes the words "pay" (3) and "day" (4) to signify how on the day his son dies he feels like he is doomed to pay the price. The speaker rhymes "rage" (7) and "age" (8) demonstrating the rage he feels for losing his son at a young age. With just these three sets of words we can catch a glimpse of what the poem is about. In the poem "The Girl Who Loved the Sky" Endrezze uses similes and imagery to express how the blind girl changes the speaker. The speaker uses a simile

Sometimes in life you must break free to see the world. Like the poem “The Bird, the Star, and the Flower” by Milena Salazar, the song “Breaking Free” by Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, is about breaking away freely like a bird from the ordinary onto finding a new destination. “We 're soarin ', flying. There 's not a star in heaven that we can 't reach” (Breaking Free) “I am as free as a bird; I hope to touch the stars one day; I see myself soaring over the sky” (The Bird, the Star, and the Flower) The main theme is to soar, explore, and fly onto a new journey like a bird or a star. Also, never lose hope of touching the stars because as you thrive like a flower you will see it is not as hard as you imagined. Don’t be scared to leaving the