When We Live Away By Henry Longfellow

I have chosen this poem to write about because the poem seems to be giving a clear message about how life can be taken away from you and death can come at anytime. This poem interest me because Henry Longfellow explains how people should not waste their life away, but instead takes advantage of their life. I like this poem because I was able to understand the poem’s meaning and it helped me understand how I and everyone else shouldn’t waste the life they have because today may be their last day and they may never see tomorrow.This poem relates to the world we live in as how many people don’t take advantage of life and always see the negative side of living instead of seeing the positive side of living, this leads to people to give up on life
Many people are sad to be living,but he does not want us to be sad, but to instead take risks and enjoy life because life can be taken from us at any day. Our goal is to not to be buried or die, but to enjoy our lives to the fullest because we are here on earth temporary and our heart beats strong every day but one day it will stop, so we should take advantage of every day and not be sad even when we face difficult challenges. Many people tend to live in the past, but we shouldn’t do that instead we should live in the present. Live for today. Leave the past in the past, and look forward to the future and to learn from others for then we won’t have to make the same mistakes as they did and to not give up on our life, even at the darkest time because all we have to do it get through it and wait until our success for it comes. In the poem, Henry wrote a simile, “And our hearts, though stout and brave,/ Still, like muffled drums, and beating/ Funeral marches to the graves./” explains how our hearts beats like drums, but like how drums always beats until the end of a song our heart beats until our life is over. He also describes, “In the world’s broad field of battle./” of how every day for everyone is a battle to survive and live because everyone is competing against death everyday while others don’t. The seventh and eighth stanza explains how when people die they leave a “mark” for us to