Journal 27: More Thanatopsis

What happened in the last journal entry; In the Thanatopsis poem it is mostly about the concept of death and what happens after death to the physical remain and the spiritual soul. Basically the traditional view of afterlife is that the physical remain is gone and the spirit remains either in the human realm or goes onto the afterworld of heaven or hell depending on the deeds one committed during life. Another view, mostly eastern, is that the soul goes into reincarnation where it gets reborn in a new body and then the soul is then recycled back into the human realm in the form of another life. In the Thanatopsis poem it is talking about how the spirit is gone and what's left to be recycled is the physical remain. In a way it is using the same idea of reincarnation but it is not reincarnation of the spirit but the reuse of the matter of your physical remain. This poem and burning house poem is different because in burning house poem it is about how earthly stuff should not be cherished too much because we eventually go to afterworld where nothing in your lifetime will matter. In this poem it is similar in that it is assuring that death is a start of something new and the earthly belongings will be gone but it's different in that you don't go to a afterworld but you go to a reincarnation of physical form where the soul disappears.