thanatopsis
/than-uh-top-sis/US // ˌθæn əˈtɒp sɪs //UK // (ˌθænəˈtɒpsɪs) //
比目鱼,比喻说,比喻,比目镜
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a view or contemplation of death.
- : a poem by William Cullen Bryant.
Examples
"Thanatopsis" was the hymn of his meditations among those solitary woods.
Between this date and that of the publication of "Thanatopsis" there sweeps an arch of forty-eight years.
Of the poems of this class, "Thanatopsis," of which we have already spoken, is one of the best known.
Who ever learned "Thanatopsis" on the summit of the Catskills, and afterwards forgot a line of it?
The son postpones his expression and leans against a jungle to a fourth encore of the tuneful Thanatopsis.
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