How does "thanatopsis" reveal the romantic conviction that the universe, far from operating like a machine, is really a living organism that undergoes constant cyclical change? how does the human speaker feel about this view of the universe?

William Cullen Bryant's poem, "Thanatopsis", revealed the Romantic conviction that the universe is really a living organism that undergoes constant cyclical changes instead of being something mechanical. He uses nature to explain what happens to us after we die, and how we should think or feel about death.

"(...)The flight of years began, have laid them down    

In their last sleep—the dead reign there alone.

So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw    

In silence from the living, and no friend    

Take note of thy departure? All that breathe    

Will share thy destiny. "

He explains that people grow, die and  then decompose back into earth again. This is the way living things undergo constant cyclical changes.

"(...)Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim    

Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again,

And, lost each human trace, surrendering up    

Thine individual being, shalt thou go    

To mix for ever with the elements..."

The speaker feels sadness about the death but comes to term with it because understands that it's a cycle.

"(...)Are shining on the sad abodes of death,    

Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread    

The globe are but a handful to the tribes    

That slumber in its bosom"

the examples that saki used to represent satire through situational irony are options two (2) and five (5) inasmuch as the wolf thought that looking for a girl in the bushes could be as easy as hunting little pigs at the park, but it took him so much time to find the girl if it had not been not for a silly mistake. also, bertha would have survived to the wolf's hunt if she had not won those medals for goodness, which at the end they were what got her killed by making noise, so winning medals of goodness was not so good achievement, after all.