William Cullen Bryant: Poem Analysis

Romantic Period
“Death is like a flower growing in a patch of weeds. Even where there is bad/evil the end will be beautiful.” The simile I wrote means that every person is going to through a hard time in their life but no matter how hard or awful it is you will end in a beautiful place called Haven. While reading William Cullen Bryant’s poem I came to the conclusion that we have somewhat of the same views. In his poem he says, “unnoticed by the living—and no friend.” I believe that he was trying to have people comprehend that even if you are unnoticed and have no friends that doesn’t change where you’ll end up in life. Today people romanticize a large number of things one being models. People romanticize models by wanting to be them and look

just like them. Models and their pictures get so edited that it doesn’t even look like them anymore. The editors will change their skin tone, weight, blemishes and multiple other things. People see models everywhere such as on signs, commercials, and even on the sides of vehicles. In this collection we also talked about imagery. Imagery is a figurative language that sets mental pictures in your head. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.” The meaning and images I got were that if a man was thinking to not bother him and leave him to his thoughts. When reading the story, The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving was about how the wife and Tom never got along always were rude to one another. After a day of the wife being very rude she had gone missing and never seen again. Tom then ended up getting very rich and became rude to everyone, so when a very poor man asked for help Tom refused. The devil then came and took Tom away because of the horrible actions he had made. This story was criticizing wealth and how you treat others. Everyone needs to remember to treat others they way you want to be treated. A large number of writers enjoyed writing about the “dark side” of human nature. Some authors received the thrill of writhing in this style while others did not. Many different themes and writing styles came out during the romantic period that are still used very much today.