Portrayed above is the belief everyone shares the same fate. .
As the long train.
Of ages glide away, the sons of men,.
The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes.
In the full strength of years, matron and maid,.
The speechless babe, and the gray-headed man - .
Shall one by one be gathered to thy side,.
By those, who in their turn shall follow them.
Also from "Thanatopsis-, Bryant explained the inevitable fate we all face- death. In "The Devil and Tom Walker-, Edgar Allen Poe wrote "There was a sharp cry - and the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantly afterwards, fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero.And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall."" Despite his position in society, Prospero could not escape his inevitable fate (death). Another example can be found in Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker-. "He now looked around, and found most of the trees marred with the name of some great man of the colony, and all more or less scored by the axe."" Many man, wealthy or not, were condemned because of their greed. Worth of the individual is encompassed in Romanticism. .
Equivalent to worth of the individual, democracy in Transcendentalism, simply put, again states that a person's potential does not depend on wealth, background or education. This is exhibited in "A Psalm of Life-. "And our hearts, though stout and brave,/Still, like muffled drums, are beating/Funeral marches to the grave."" Longfellow conveyed the feeling of death; we will all have funerals, we will all die. From "Self-Reliance-: "Accept the place the Divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of your evens. Great men have always done so."" Accept your position in life, Emerson wrote, it is where God has put you, and your place has none of the importance.