Which poem contains the line about joining the innumerable caravan in the silent halls of death?

• A. The Waste Land
• B. Thanatopsis
• C. Death Be Not Proud
• D. To an Athlete Dying Young

Answer: (B)

This line is from Thanatopsis, a Romantic-era meditation on death by William Cullen Bryant. The poem uses a traveler’s metaphor for the dead, describing death as joining an “innumerable caravan” and moving toward the “silent halls of death.” The image invites acceptance of mortality and suggests that death is a natural, inevitable part of life, something shared by all who have lived. The line captures the poem’s calm, consoling view that one should live nobly and in harmony with nature, so that joining the procession after death feels like returning to a larger natural order rather than an end. The other poems mentioned approach death from different angles or contexts, so they don’t contain this particular image.