Henry Longfellow
Henry Longfellow is an American poet who writes about life and brings meaning to it in his poems. In several of his poems, the reader will find examples of life, love, death, contemplation, and inspiration. This paper depicts Henry Longfellow's poems through summaries and illustration's. In the poem "A Psalm of Life", Found in United States Literature by Robert Hayden, Longfellow discusses life and inspires one that life is worth living. This poem is a poem mainly of inspiration. In this poem, Longfellow takes what could be a bad situation and uses the right words to make that Longfellow discusses life in line two, "Life is but an empty dream"(98). In this line Longfellow is bringing out a bad situation, it is saying that life is empty, that it has no point. Also in lines five and six. "Life is real! Life is earnest! and the grave is not it's goal"(98), Longfellow is bringing out the good in that bad situation. He is saying life is their, one has to live is, a humans goal is not death, but life! Finall
of inspiration. In lines nine thorough twelve "Not enjoyment, and not labor and to wait"(98). These lines are saying that no matter what happens been thought about, it can be seen as a very inspiring poem. on through life, your friends, and family will be taken away, they wont be sleeps peacefully while so much in nature goes on around her. Her lover The life of this poem is bought mainly in these two lines, "toiling,- Longfellow only refers to death in a couple places in this poem. Such as Literature by Robert Probst, Longfellow talks about a lost loved one. He misses it by being off in their own world. It show's that people are too
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