With Bryant’s “Thanatopsis”, Longfellow’s “The Tide Rises, the TIde Falls”, and Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”, the reader can behold the integrity of romanticism and transcendentalism pieces. They explored a world that was not in sync with reality and went more into a realm of imagination and intricate figurative writing. In addition to these accomplishments, the messages of these pieces improves the future for the better while teaching readers about the universality of the human condition. Thus, “Thanatopsis…
Words 409 - Pages 2