Question

How does Bryant use imagery to develop the idea of death? Cite evidence from the text to support your response.

Answer 1

Bryant uses images of coffins, tombs, and graves to develop the idea of death. The poet paints a scary picture of death using words such as agony, shroud, and shudder:

Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall. 
And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, 
Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart—

He describes the "stern agony" of dying and uses words such as shroud and pall to suggest the cloth wrapped around dead bodies and caskets. Bryant also draws comparisons between the freedom and space of nature and the narrow confinement of coffins.

He further explains how nature acts as a "great tomb of man" as everyone gets mixed up in the earth after dying.

Credited directly from Plato

Answer 2

Answer:

The human being in general is afraid of death and this is due to ignorance. You always fear what you don't know. When consciousness awakens, ignorance disappears and fear of death ceases to exist. Nobody dies on the eve. The human being dies the day and at the time indicated by the Law of Destiny. "The cause of death is sin," the Holy Scriptures say; really, the human being when committing the original sin in that Earthly Paradise, was once in a chain of deaths and births, from which he can only be released when he is born for the second time of his creative energy - semen -, when he is baptized - transmuted - by the Holy Spirit in Perfect Marriage. St. Paul tells us in the Bible that the human being has a carnal body and a spiritual body. This carnal body is called "physical body" and the spiritual body is called "soul or astral body". These bodies are joined by a fluidic or energetic cord, which in esotericism is called "Silver Cord." First Judgment