Romantic literature is defined as the individual's expression of emotions, awe of nature, imagination, fixation on/analysis of death, etc. Some great authors include Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, and many more. Throughout this essay I will do an analysis on these stories: The Devil and Tom Walker, Thanatopsis, and section 33 from Song of Myself.
The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving, is about a common man who lives in the woods far away from society. He had a wife who was just as miserly as he was. They had no values and would hide things away from each other. He wanted to find a way to get rich quick so he makes a deal with …show more content…
Nature has a voice of gladness in your happy hours, in your darker hours she has a healing voice. At the end even the sun that sees everything will no longer see you, you will return to dust. No matter who you are kings, the wise, the good, fair forms, and hoary seers you will all be in the burial place. Death is part of nature and will happen to everyone. Some forms of romantic literature present were imagination, nature, and fixation of death.
In the text there are many examples of imagination that make you see how your grave will be. “Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, and breathless darkness, and the narrow house.” Death causes stern agony makes you suffer painfully and the shroud that is used to wrap the dead body in the pall or coffin. He then starts to describe how the coffin will look from the interior.
Another example would be, “Yet not to thine eternal resting place shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish couch more magnificent ” This basically means that we won’t be dead alone, there will be other important and unimportant people there. We will be headed to a much better place than a regular coffin. Something like a couch that we will …show more content…
It’s a still voice so it's intended to calm you, but in a few days something will happen. You can also see fixation of death as a big topic in this poem. The author tells you to live your life before you travel to that mysterious realm and take your chamber in the halls of death. He makes you see your life as a one time opportunity that can only happen once and no matter what you do death will come for you.
Section 33 from Song of Myself is about a man who is comparing his vision to a ship that's going on a trip. He goes many places and compares many things. In this story you can see imagination and the celebration of the