1. How does Bryant use landscape to express philosophical ideas?
2. How do these ideas compare to/contrast with Chinese philosophical and religious ideas?
3. Compare Thomas Cole's painting The Oxbow with Bryant's poems, looking for these characteristics: harmony in nature; indications of the transcendent in nature; appeals to readers' emotions; distant perspective; mingling imagery of light and darkness; implications of the unity of nature.
4. Compare Bryant's "To a Yellow Violet," "To a Fringed Gentian," and "To a Waterfowl" to Freneau's "To a Wild Honeysuckle."
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