Bryant's Thanatopsis

What do people think when they read about Thanatopsis? Shall people be afraid of death? No is the best answer to respond to this question, especially, when death is predestined; therefore, people shall be ready when they are facing the actual "death". Usually, their fears of facing the actual death are caused by their own negative perspective, when they have to define and understand about death itself. Death is really connecting to the word Thanatopsis that the word itself came from the Greek word called Thanatos, which means "demise or death" and opsis means, "vision" or point of view. The new word is defined by the poem: a way of looking at and thinking about death (Element of Literature 166). Bryant used his famous Thanatopsis to show his supportive ideas of looking at the positive side of death in human beings. In the "Thanatopsis", a sixteen-year-old Bryant had been supporting and expanding his ideas to express his positive sight on death during his introverted walks on the woods. One of his little ideas was actually offering several "voices" in a dialogue on the subject of nature and death as it says on the Exploring Poetry online edition. Bryant viewed death from a different perspective than anybody else ever did; he was the first poem writer to point out on the good
In "Thanatopsis" 32-33) is saying that one person shall always be eager to face another day, not wasting time and living their live lazily, where it all couldn't be a good idea as a heavenly place is waiting for one when the time comes. Then, "So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves to that mysterious realm…" (qtd. In "Thanatopsis" 73-75) talked about a "place" where one or each person supposedly is going when one's turn is up, it is a mysterious place where each person take a "room" and there, one sleeps peacefully without any forms or