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What is the connection between the title of the poem, Thanatopis and the poem itself?

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Answer: To put it bluntly, “Thanatopsis” is about death. The word thanatopsis itself derives from the Greek roots thanatos death and opsis sight. In other words, the poem always has death in its sights. One of the speaker's main goals seems simply to make death and its inevitability vivid for the poem's readers.

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