"Thanatopsis" is a poem about life after death. Bryant illustrates his own ideas concerning death. He shows the connection between death and the going on cycle of nature and life. Bryant believes that after death will be a new life and everything will change or die eventually. Death is also an equalizer because everyone who dies all share the same fate.
Bryant shows that life and death are apart of nature. Nature does so many good things in life that death is only natural. Nature is the cause for happiness and wise doings, thus nature brings death to people for a reason. "To him who in the…
