Romanticism, in its entirety, is the love of all the good qualities of earth and its inhabitants. This love also includes the supernatural, mystical, and morale thought along with the physical aspects. "Hymn of the City" is a clear example of a poem from the Romantic Era. The poem explains how God is every where, "thy Spirit is around." In the poem a happy description of the God is given supposedly as he watching over the author's home city. One notices that the author, William Cullen Bryant, uses end rhymes with alternating near and exact rhymes with some examples of similes and personification. Archaic language is also used through out the poem. The poem is written as if the narrator is explaining to his neighbors how God is every where and how he is alway

The fifth and final stanza contains the closure to the poem. It paints a scene of the lights of a city going out from under God's watchful eye. This once again emphasizes the powerful belief in the supernatural. There is another simile in this stanza comparing the city's "hour of rest," to the sleeping of a brine shrimp once again dwelling on the correlation between man and nature. Bryant also personifies the great city as a sleeping, person feeling safer under God's protection.

The first two stanzas reflect the author's feelings toward the city in concern. The writer claims that God walks among the people of the city, "Thy steps, Almighty!-here, amid the crowd." . While reading the first two stanzas an image of a bustling road filled with people tending to their daily tasks comes to mind. Th

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