JE26 Thanatopsis

            William Cullen Bryant described many things in nature that comes in cycles of life and death. He first introduced nature as a person who tells the events that happened in nature. This is strongly connected to one Romantic point, which states that the truth is found in nature. The author viewed this world as fickle. Everything can change within any moment and there is no eternity. The believed that after we died, we chemically and physically turn into other beings or stuffs. He believes that every “matter” has gone through the cycle of life and death, and then transforms into something else instead. I think it is something good to think about. We do not just disappear from this world. It is actually nice to turn into something else in other people’s life. This idea is not religion-related, which involves in the afterlife of soul. I agree with Bryant’s idea of life and death cycle. However, I believe there is something more to do with the soul. The soul in our body cannot just disappear after we died. It will have to go to somewhere else. Maybe it is heaven, or a new born baby’s body. Bryant described death as the end of something. However, I actually think it is also the start of a new event.