Part A: What effect does Bryant’s use of personification of nature have on the theme of the poem "Thanatopsis"? Cite evidence from the text to support your response.

Nature, for Bryant, does not have much consolation to offer to the reader who is experiencing depressing thoughts about death. The best Bryant can say is that it happens to everybody and that Nature will continue to exist in all its wonder and beauty after we are gone.

Explanation:

In his poem, Bryant describes nature as a woman with a kind and affectionate personality. Personifying nature as a woman helps to make it more identifiable and comforting. Bryant contemplates nature’s empathy. Nature has a conversation with him depending on his mood. She talks to him happily when he is happy and cheers him up when he is sad. She also comforts him when thoughts of death upset him.

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