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What does the title “Thanatopsis” mean?

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a. birth and death
b. seeing death
c. growth and death
d. dying

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Well, the word thanatopsis is a Greek word that means meditation on or contemplation of death, and the whole poem is an elegy that attempts to console humans, given that everybody has to die eventually.
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