Poems that are based on romanticism such as "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant express a certain feeling not obtained in other kinds of poems. Many people in the romantic era believed that man's purpose was to become one with nature. They felt power and wisdom comes from nature. They also believed in humanitarian which was an elevated common man or noble savage. Intuition was said to be more important than reason. People stressed the concept …
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…nature, humanitarian, and feelings being more important than nature. The author feels a personal relationship with nature is important. A key importance to the poem was to make readers understand that death should not be sad. After all, death happens to everyone sooner or later so it is not worth dwelling upon it. This romantic work of art exhibits the true beauty of romanticism and how it makes a person feel about life and death.