Freneau and Bryant's Connections.

AR2 Outline

Thesis:

American poets, Philip Freneau, and William Cullen Bryant are known for their Neoclassic and Romantic poetry. In comparing and contrasting Freneau’s “The Wild Honey Suckle” and Bryant’s “Thanatopsis”, which means the view of death, shows how both poets talk about life and death. Also demonstrated, is the love of American nature.Thesis needed  1

I. Freneau and Bryant’s reasoning of expressing the love of Nature and concerns of death.

a.Lettering/Numbering Freneau’s spiritual accord with Nature and Bryant’s freedom to the open fields is an example of the calm of living in the country and not having the fear of dying alone.

b. The abstract in Freneau’s and Bryant’s poems is that of the knowledge and not that of pardon or eternal life.

II. The poems, “Thanatopsis” and “The Wild Honey Suckle” are expressive poems that attempt to express sympathy to mankind that in fact everyone someday has to die.

a. Bryant says that no one should fear death, and Freneau says that one should hide in uninterrupted caves to save themselves from as long as they can from death.

b. Death is a natural process that is necessary as a part of Nature. Human should stand submissively to death as contrasting to avoiding it.

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 Mrs. Rhonda Sullivan

Eng 2327

18 June 2016

Analytical Response 2

 Philip Freneau’s “The Wild Honey Suckle” and William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis” are two Neoclassical romantic poems from the 1800s. Freneau and Bryant express their love of NCapitalizationature in their poetry. Nature is referringVForm to as a maternal female to Earth2.Thesis needed 3

  Topic sent. neededAt the beginning of Freneau’s poem, “The Wild Honey Suckle”, Freneau compares the narrator4 to a wild honeysuckle and expresses that “Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat Poetry lines need punc.(FCut not MLA 1-2)”, in which he conveys a spiritual accord with nature.Mixed con. Just as the flowers that sprout and then die, some5 are hidden in human form. Some of that form that the inner beauty is a cave to the outer body beauty.???  No one should threaten the gentle flower that is aging and changing in a quiet place. It is hidden and unharmed. “No roving foot shall crush thee here, no busy hand provoke a tear (Fnot MLA 5-6)," meaning no person can cause its sadness. In Bryant's “Thanatopsis”, he says that when someone threatens that beauty, theyPro. Agr. should just step aside and listen to Nature. Intro. quotes“To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms (Bnot MLA 1-2)." Bryant expresses himself to be free of his “narrow house (Bnot MLA 12)," which may be his home, to the open fields, “Go forth, under the open sky, and list to Nature’s teachings (Bnot MLA 14-15)."  6

 Topic sent. neededIn line eight of Freneau’s poem, “she, bade thee shun the vulgar eye (Fnot MLA 8)”, explains that Nature’s design shade will protect the plant. Just as in “Thanatopsis," a cover has been set up to protect the flower from crude onlookers like a woman who is trying to avoid death. She relieves herself from unavoidable death that is forthcoming???. Bryant explains that it is Nature’s ability to make humans feel better. Line forty-five “The golden sun, The Planets all infinite host of heaven, are shining… (Bnot MLA 45-47),” and there should be awareness of death itself and not that of pardon or eternal life. Bryant is sorrowful about death like most romantics. In contrast to Freneau’s poem,7 Bryant encourages the reader that to live by earning “trust (Bnot MLA 79)” in the natural order, death is only that of a “pleasant dream (B 81)”. Neoclassical deist Freneau asserts mortality as a heartbreaking aspect of the perfect order created by God.

In contrastsSing/Plu ofPreposition 8 what Freneau writes in his poem, Bryant’s poem is an expressive poem that attempts to sympathize with all humankind that in fact one day everyone one day will die. Bryant says that no one should fear death but trust in the compassion, persistence, peace and tranquility of Nature. Death is given a common form of existence and is a necessary part of life through a natural process. It is universal and an important part of Nature. The world is immense, wide-ranged, and old and humans are part of this grand process. Humans all die and again rejoinedVTense into the earth. Freneau’s concept is that death inSpl inevitable but doesn’tNo contractions come to a full acceptance of death itself. Freneau is sensitive to the beauty of nature and is clear ofPreposition 9 the feeling between life and death. Unlike Bryant, even though Freneau mentions that the earth is like an unspoiled American, that much like the garden of Eden, actually doesn’t mention religious faith in his poem, but that death is merely just as life before birthFragment. He also makes sure that the reader understands that the flower represents real life. Freneau contemplates on death but also celebrates life.

Freneau and Bryant compare the life and death process to human kind but yet Redundantcontrast each other on how each feels. Bryant says that yes death is inevitable, but it is a happy, dream-filled sleep.  Redundant

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Bryant, William Cullen. ThanatopsisQuotations instead. The American Tradition in                                        Literature. Ed. George and Barbara Perkins. 11th ed. Vol.1. New York: McGraw-Hill        Companies, Inc., 2007. (818-820)Punctuation. Print.