Do you think Longfellow's poem is about one specific traveler, or could it apply to all in general? Explain your answer. *…
Do you think Longfellow's poem is about one specific traveler, or could it apply to all in general? Explain your answer.…
Do you think Longfellow's poem is about one specific traveler, or could it apply to all in general? Explain your answer.…
The poems, "The Wild Swans at Coole" and "The Great Scarf of Birds," unconsciously play off one another. Yeats and Updike paint similar pictures about similar topics. Although these poems consist of similar subjects, the authors' diction and details are at completely different ends of the poetry spectrum.…
Prompt: Write an essay in which you discuss how the poem's diction (choice of words) reveals his attitude toward the two ways of living mentioned in the poem.…
As people near the time of their deaths, they begin to reflect upon the history and events of their own lives. Both John Keats’ “When I have Fears” and Henry Longfellow’s “Mezzo Cammin” reflect upon the speakers’ fears and thoughts of death. However, the conclusions between these two poems end quite differently. Although both reflect upon Death’s grasp, Keats’ displays an appreciation and subtle satisfaction with the wonders of life, while Longfellow morbidly mourns his past inactions and fears what events the future may bring.…
To begin with, Henry Longfellow uses nature in contrast with a persons lifetime. In "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls", Longfellow gives the logical impression that nature repeats its cycle without foreseeable end, while a persons lifetime is limited. An example to this can be found in the last stanza where he writes: " The day returns, but nevermore, Returns the traveler to the shore". Longfellow associates darkness with death, ocean with life, and light with heaven. In other words, he is stating that once one reaches death, sometimes they are forgotten, but no matter what, they will never return to life. On the contrary, Longfellow does not want to give the idea that death should be feared. Instead, he simply wants one to be aware that death is indeed coming.…
Also, both poems are narrated by a single person, implying that the choices that they have made and the hardships they have endured have been alone. This implies a strength and individuality from either narrator.…
He states, "Throughout the first five stanzas of the poem, the speaker spends the lines generally talking about death and how one should stand up in the face of…
Yeats’ “The Second Coming” and Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” are two contrasting poems with passionate tones. Yeats’ poem describes a new time that will bring disorder to the world. He explains his ideas in a negative tone that presents a frightening mood. On the other hand, Thomas’ poem is about the struggle against death. He urgently begs his father to battle against death, creating a sad mood. In each poem, figurative language, the theme, and the mood are used to create the authors tone.…
Keats’s “When I Have Fears” and Longfellow’s “Mezzo Cammin” are both poems that reflect different opinions of death and dreams. Longfellow’s poem draws comfort from the past, viewing the future as nothing but an ultimate unsettling demise. Keats’s views death in another way, seeing all of the things still to do, but being unable to truly reach his goals and desires. Although both poems reflect upon life and death Keats’s and Longfellow’s work both embody different perspectives on what’s truly left to live for.…
“When I Have Fears” by John Keats and “Mezzo Cammin” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow provide a complex perspective of each author’s own description for impending doom, and how failure is an inevitable force that will consume them in the near future. Although both poems deal with a similar theme, the situations in which the authors have placed themselves reflect through the poems themselves. Keats, who speaks with little to no ardor, depicts himself as a waste of potential life and, consequently, imagines the day he will no longer walk the earth with unattained acclaim. Keats explains how he will never discover a “fair creature of an hour (Keats 9)”, indicating that he will…
'Grief is always essentially selfish. ' Compare and contrast the poets ' presentation of their responses to loss, exploring how far both men are more preoccupied with themselves than with their dead wives.…
The fear and self struggle that Longfellow produces in his writing, simply comes alive through the very words in this sonnet. His fear for dying without having accomplished anything in his life is very evident, as he ponders over all of the years he let pass. This leads into his fear for the future and if he will accomplish anything in the time left. He shows deep regret in Mezzo Cammin, right at the beginning as Longfellow says, "Half of my life is gone". The author allows the audience to interpret his emotions and analyze his phrases to help add in to the meaning that he wants to produce.…
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Rainy Day” uses the themes of lost and renewed hope, youth and grief to show how much our past and future experiences affect our lives and how though we face multiple struggles in life we can overcome them. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born February 28th, 1807 and died March 24th, 1882. He was inspired to write poetry from Romanticism. Not only did he accomplish writing many pieces of poetry he was also a novelist. He wrote “The Rainy Day” in 1841 and wrote it in memory of his wife who had passed away in front of his eyes. Longfellow’s poems are mostly long but this was one of his few short poems. “The Rainy Day” was popular for the way Wadsworth had displayed his grief, he was not one to publicly grieve but through this poem we can most certainly understand his loss was at a great magnitude. There are many people who had agreed with these topics of renewed and lost hope, youth and change.…