Thantopsis and the Road Theme Death

AP English Period 5 William Bryant uses vision of Natures steady to create a theme that end is beautiful and serene, plot Cormac McCarthy uses imagery darkness and dead things to create a theme that dying is alarming and dark. Bryants perception of terminal shows that it is interconnected with constitution at which it is a life cycle. He shows us a different spatial relation on how finis is. His use of creative imagery of reputation to closing creates the theme of last being not as bad as it seems. McCarthys view of end differs from Bryants view.McCarthy uses a post-apocalyptic world where nature is dead to support the theme that ending is horrible. Both authors use imagery to show the relationship between life and death to create themes reverse gear of each other. In Thanatopsis, the author shows the theme close death by comparing it to natures salmon pink. Most people see death as horrible, just now Bryant shows an in-depth meaning to it. The verse form starts off by per passwordifying nature as a beautiful female, and a smile and eloquence of saucer (Lines 4-5), who get out always be there for you to make you feel better, Into his darker musings, with a mild and healing sympathy. (Lines 6-8) The poem takes a shift and talks about how death feels alike Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall and breathless darkness, and the narrow house, (Lines 11-12) and the radical of being in pain in a dark coffin. The poem continues going back and forth on natures beauty and death, and soon connects it back to the theme. Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, (Line 23) shows that after death is another phase of life itself, and we forget return to be adept with nature. Our dead decomposing bodies go forth be mixed in with nature, Shall send his root abroad, and pierce thy mould. Line 30) Bryant compares nature to a coffin, Are but the grave decorations all of the great tomb of man. (Line 44-45), to show the coffins of dead people created natures beauty, the valleys, hills, rivers. Bryant leaves a message to the living that death, the great equalizer, is inevitable and everyone will die eventually, The youth gray-headed man. (Line 68-70) He then continues on recounting the message that you only live once, so live your life to your undecomposed potential, So Live, (Line 73) and be aware that death will eventually drive with a blanket around him and getting ready for a happy, dream-filled sleep, (Line 80-81).You will not go to death alone. Everyone who has ever died will already be there. Everyone who hasnt gone yet will be there eventually. Bryant connects nature with death because its with all the death that Mother Natures beauty was created, and as you become one with nature. In The Road, McCarthy makes death a darker and scary theme. Since the beginning to the end of the book, McCarthy uses imagery to show that death is horrible. As the engender and intelligence are on the road, the don describes everything he sees He tells particular proposition imagery on the dead trees, no colors, ash abandon synthetic objects, like buildings and trains, and others.Every living thing in the world is dead, so they beastly what they can from abandon houses to keep themselves from famishment, and freezing to death. There is a invariable fear of dying from the son, Are we going to die? Some duration. Not Now, (Page 10) but the father knows that they are going to die, but not now. The Father and son are out in an unforgiving, dangerous world where even the slightest slip could lead to death, so they keep on moving. All they see is death, wrong the barn three bodies hanging from the rafters, dried and dusty, (Page 16) as they move.The boy has seen so much death in his short life that he learns to occupy it and understand that death is here. The father is only living because of the son, and it is his responsibility to muster him a safe place, as the son is only living for his father. The boy said, I wish I was with my mom, because he wishes to be dead like his sire. The first death that both the father and son witness was his mother death. The mother didnt want to live anymore because she couldnt administration the world as it is filled with cannibals and murderers, they are going to rape us and kill us and eat us and you wont cause it.Youd rather wait for it to happen. But I cant. (p. 58). The father and son are always on the move because of the fear that they will be eaten by cannibals. In the mansion, the father opened up the room, and proverb living humans held captive to be food for the cannibals. The father and son saw a beheaded, gutted out, baby over a fire when they were starving for food (Page 199). Death is everywhere in The Road. They are always on the constant move so they can run away from death by finding food and warmth, while privacy from the cannibals.Both works of publications gives a clear relationship between life and death. McCarthy shows imagery that describes that death is horrible. The constant running to find what they can to eat while hiding from cannibals show that death is at the door, and it is only a matter of time before they die. Bryants imagery of death is more serene and beautiful. He gave a lighter and happier tone on death and how death shouldnt not be feared, and live your life. Both McCarthy and Bryant uses imagery to show death as a beauty or scary.