Thantopsis and the Road Theme Death

AP English Period 5 William Bryant uses vision of geniuss beauty to cr feed ine a theme that dying is beautiful and serene, while Cormac McCarthy uses mental imagery darkness and idle things to create a theme that shoe exploitrs last is scary and dark. Bryants perception of finale shows that it is unite with per passwordality at which it is a liveliness history cycle. He shows us a different perspective on how finis is. His use of creative imagery of nature to dying creates the theme of death being not as bad as it seems. McCarthys view of death differs from Bryants view.McCarthy uses a post-apocalyptic reality where nature is dead to support the theme that death is horrible. both(prenominal) authors use imagery to show the relationship between life and death to create themes opposite of each other. In Thanatopsis, the author shows the theme approximately death by comparing it to natures beauty. Most lot see death as horrible, but Bryant shows an in-depth meaning to it. The poem starts impinge on by personifying nature as a beautiful female, and a smiling and eloquence of beauty (Lines 4-5), who give always be in that respect for you to make you feel better, Into his darker musings, with a mild and healing sympathy. (Lines 6-8) The poem takes a swop and talks about how death feels like Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall and dyspneic darkness, and the narrow house, (Lines 11-12) and the idea of being in pain in a dark coffin. The poem continues acquittance 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 exit effect to be one with nature. Our dead decomposing bo peter outs will be mixed in with nature, Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Line 30) Bryant comp atomic number 18s nature to a coffin, are but the solemn decorations all of the swell 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 animation that death, the great equalizer, is inevitable and everyone will die eventually, The youth gray-headed man. (Line 68-70) He and then continues on telling the message that you solo acknowledge once, so live your life to your full potential, So Live, (Line 73) and be aware that death will eventually come with a blanket around him and getting situate 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 father and son are on the road, the father describes everything he sees He tells detail imagery on the dead trees, no colors, change abandon man-made objects, like buildings and trains, and others.Every living thing in the knowledge base is dead, so they savage what they can from abandon houses to keep themselves from starving, and freezing to death. on that point is a constant fear of dying from the boy, Are we going to die? Sometime. 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 misstep could lead to death, so they keep on moving. all told they see is death, Inside the barn three bodies hanging from the rafters, dried and dusty, (Page 16) as they front.The boy has seen so much death in his short life that he learns to accept it and understand that death is here. The father is only living because of the son, and it is his responsibility to find him a safe place, as the son is o nly living for his father. The boy said, I wish I was with my mom, because he wishes to be dead like his mother. The first death that both the father and son witness was his mother death. The mother didnt want to live any longer because she couldnt face the world as it is filled with cannibals and murderers, they are going to rape us and kill us and eat us and you wint face 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 capable up the room, and saw living humans held captive to be nutriment 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 away from death by finding food and warmth, while conceal from the cannibals.Both works of literature 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 much 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.