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The tones between the " Song of the Open Road" and "Thanatopsis are quite different. In the " Song of the Open Road", the tone is tranquil and stress-free. In which the poem specifies on how people need to get outside into nature to be free from difficult obstacles they face in their everyday lives. However, in "Thanatopsis", the tone starts off as sad and miserable to reassuring about the concept of death. Since, people often are afraid to leave the Earth at any moment, they should go out into nature and hear its voice to know that when they die, they will not be alone and they will mix back into the

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