What kind of stance did romantic writers have on death?

Question

For example, writers like edgar allan poe had ideas that death was dark and mysterious...
any other ideas?
and how would they compare to writers such as william cullen bryant who wrote "Thanatopsis"?

Answer 1

Poe was an American Romanticist - slightly different from the first and second generation European Romanticists. Death is natural - part of life. Their focus was on nature. Poe and Hawthorne took a slightly different approach in the American Romanticist period. They added an air of mystery. However, they all took a stand that murder was hubris - God's job - not theirs. Perhaps the best example of that was Hawthorne's The Birthmark - where a Doctor seeks to remove an imperfection on his wife's face - a birthmark shaped like a hand that people said looked like she had been touched by God. In trying to remove it, he kills her. It was not his place to mess with nature - God's creation.
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Answer 2

Mysterious indeed coupled with the imminent sacrifice that colors the canvas of this seductive yet illusive state, all in the name of "LOVE and devotion to the imagined ultimate experience we all long for with another."

Answer 3

a romantic one? ;p

but seriously, yeah, that is the answer. they thought of it romantically, it was dark, intriguing, a little dangerous, sad, they liked to be sad so, the death of a loved one, sad, your own death, tragic, mysterious. etc. etc. perhaps a gateway to another world. who knows?

sorry i don't know the 2nd guy.