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This excerpt from the poem "Thanatopsis" discusses death and the afterlife. It states that when one dies, they will not rest alone but join many others who have passed. It encourages the reader to live virtuously so that when death comes, they can face it without fear and join their predecessors in the afterlife.
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- 1. Paraphrase Restate in your own words
- 2. Paraphrase this line from “Thanatopsis” “ Yet not to thine eternal resting-place shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish couch more magnificent.”
- 3. Paraphrase this line from “Thanatopsis” “ So live, that when thy summons comes to join the innumerable caravan, which moves to that mysterious realm, where each shall take his chamber in the silent halls of death, though go not, like the quarry-slave at night, scourged to his dungeon”