Literary Analysis Of Thanatopsis, By William Cullen Bryant

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William Cullen Bryant was an important New York poet, and a conventional school poet in the 19th century. The rhyme scheme of this poem is iambic pentameter unrhymed or blank verse. It is a graveyard poem that basically says to become one with nature and take advantage of your life. The importance of this passage is that it is a way for William Cullen Bryant to say to the audience, live so that when you die you can die comfortably. The theme of this poem is death, and living your life to the fullest because when you die you can’t do anything
But, as human nature goes not straight forward, but by excessive action and then reaction in an undulated course, he misunderstood and abused his advantages, and became her temporal master instead of her spiritual sire. On himself came the punishment. He educated Woman more as a servant than a daughter and found himself a king without a queen.
This is a passage from the essay, “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, by Margaret fuller. Margret fuller was one of the smartest of transcendentalist. This passage is important because it shows her view on society that women were not equal. She is helping make her case that women are an oppressed minority/ majority. The theme is the development of equality for women. She wrote this essay in a time when the roles of people in society were changing because of industrialization, and women’s movement was taking off because upper white women were bored and as smart as the white male. She gives a radical notion of democracy. Margret fuller wrote this essay to obtain equality for