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MIDTERMESSAY
Henry

Stater

Mrs. Pritchard
English

II

12/18/15
Death 1; the Permanent

Amnesia of

Life?
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Both"A Carol
of Harvest" by Walt Whitman
and "An Autumn Sunset" focus
on the impact
and the situation of death.
The two poems
are fromcontrasting
literary movements,
Transcendentalism and Naturalism,
respectively, yet they still
have
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death.

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the dead.

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that he

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on

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the coming

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feet?"

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cruelty

of

nature.

Wharton and Whitman successfully

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theirrespective

movements

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characteristics

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each

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he

those

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when

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and are

purged of all remembrance" (Wharton

36). Neither theory can
directly be proven
but, when
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with natural or
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transcendentalist characteristics,
for interesting

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points
of view of death. 7
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Wharton and Walt Whitman both have
intriguing perspectives of death
and the
memories
of the dead.
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