Romantic Poem Reflection- Thanatopsis

Thanatopsis 

Circle of Life

     I choose the poem " Thanatopsis" because because I think it had a good message. It has good advice about about what to do when you are thinking about death or someone near to you has died. You have to think about how even though its sad, your body is going back into nature, completing the circle of life. Also if it talks about how no matter what, you are going to die. Everyone dies, so the sooner you accept that, the better. The last stanza then goes on to talk about carpe diem. I agree with the author in that we should live every day to its fullest and never have regrets about things that we do. We should forgive and forget quickly and move on with life because you never know how much time is left. Everyone should take full advantage of every opportunity they are given, because it could be a once in a lifetime thing. Though this poem starts out kinda dark and damper, it definitely has good points. 

Connection to Nature- Wind

WIND

     So when I looked outside today, the first thing I noticed was the wind, for it was an extremely windy day. In turn, I picked wind to write about:

     Wind is like my moods. Sometimes I feel happy and it is like light wind on a slightly warm day. It is just enough to cool down the temperature to make it a perfect day. Other times I feel emotions, good or bad, boiling up inside of me, growing bigger and bigger but never showing on the outside. This is like the times when the wind is nonexistent right before a big storm. And when the wind finally starts, there is no stopping it until it blows itself right out after the storm is done. That wind in the storm is when my emotions come out from inside all at once. Just as the wind is very versatile, my emotions are very versatile as well. 

What Were You Thinking, Edgar?

My Ending

     I averted my eyes-- 

    Without knowing, I slowly fell into the pit, being forced by the heated iron. I curled up into a sphere on the way down, hoping to block out whatever was to befall me at the bottom of this abominable pit. After what felt like a lifetime and I half, I was still descending, and began to think I had already died and this was to be my eternal doom. Instead, a minute, an hour, or days later,  I landed. It was not what I had expected. It seems I had fallen onto a great mass of verdure floating on the brink of the water. It was the first respectable occurrence that has happened to me. 

     I thought to myself, cautiously, that I had finally escaped, when I saw a little a the end of a long tunnel through which this, now I realized, river ran at. I recalled after a long time that I could swim, and gently took off down that tunnel, hope filling my heart. 

    All I had of hope was gone within seconds when I felt something tear at my lower limb. I could not see yet, for the light was still too far, though I did not know  if  I even wanted to see what was attracted, so grotesquely, to me appendages. Then I felt another chomp and began to realize that this was not the freedom I had hoped for, but another torture, one that I would not survive. 

     I soon realized I would not want to live through being torn limb from limb and allowed myself to be pulled under and soon my world started growing even darker. Soon, it was blacker than the cell i had originally been in. I than simply, fell asleep.