The Poetry Of William Cullen Bryant And

The Poetry of William Cullen Bryant and Emily Dickinson: The Theme of Death

Many poems are written about death. The two poets William Cullen Bryant and

Emily Dickinson were very influential trancendental writers. Bryant writing

Thanatopsis And Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” are

basically more alike then than they are similar for the fact that there views on

Death are the same, but what happens to you after is what is disimiliar,although

Dickinsons and Bryants poems are very different as seen in specific detail. As

in both poems death is present, the way the two authors express it however is a

bit unsimiliar.

One of many things that is similar is the fact that both authors present

there poems in first person view,but the way they describe what happens to you

after death is what is very dissimilar. In the poem when she says “We passed

the school where children played ,We passed the the fields of blazing grain,”

shows her use of Idealisation of Nature.Bryants whole poem is Idealisation of

nature, by choosing but one sentence would be cutting the poem short.By both

authors using the same romantic element is just another example of how they are

similar.

Thanatopsis and Because i could not stop for Death,are somewhat

dissimilar , for instance when in Dickinsons poem when she says “We slowly drove

he knew no haste,” she is referring about death taking her away and she sees

everything on this journey.william Cullen Bryant however sees Death a little

different ,like in his poem when he says ” There comes a still voice yet a few

days . and thee you will see no more,”He is saying that it will be very peaceful

and fast. That when you hear the voice, all is gone. They both had different

romantic/trancendental connections,bryant used heavy Idealisation of Mature by

saying “To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible

forms.”Emily Dickinson used supernatural for the fact that she says ” Because i

could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me.” Meaning I had no time for

death ,”HE” being death himself stopped for me. By her saying that she is

showing her transcendental elements.

All in all these two poems that have been compared and contrasted are

similar, however they still have very strong Unsimiliar elements.The two authors

Emily Dickinson and william Cullen Bryant definitely have similar elemental

intuitions for there poems are so alike.By comparing these poems there

similarities have greatly shined and only by reading the deep inside of the poem

can you notice that , by only skimming the surface of these poems you surely are

not getting the full effect of the poems written by these eccentric authors.