Thanatopsis By William Cullen Bryant

Death is a scary and ever approaching event. Public speaker and Public speaker and writer William Cullen Bryant tried to comfort the public in his poem Thanatopsis. He explains in his poem that death is scary but it is not to be feared. William Cullen Bryant uses anastrophe and imagery to illustrate his theme that although death is inevitable and extremely scary it is not to be feared because when in death a person is not alone. Bryant uses anastrophe throughout the poem to illustrate his theme. By inverting the normal word order he brings attention to important lines such as “Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night/Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed. ()” which highlights that you shouldn't face death like a hopeless