Aftermath Poem Analysis Paragraph “Aftermath” Analysis In Aftermath‚ Henry Longfellow describes the devastation of war upon the country by using natural images to depict the before and after effects of war but having nature living on. In the opening stanza‚ the repetition of the "W" in every line would convey to a sense of woe and mourning‚ it is never ending; a crying and weeping nation. Longfellow then symbolizes birds that are "fledged and flown"(2) to represent the idea of young boys in their
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side of man. Within this unit‚ there were a few pieces of literature that I found displays this best. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne are both prominent authors in the world of literature‚ even to this day. The first piece that I will be talking about is “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In describing the midnight ride of Paul Revere‚ Longfellow uses a ton of imagery: "...the breath of the morning breeze/blowing over the meadows brown..."‚ "...startled the pigeons
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Honors American Literature p.4 Draft: (min. 500 words) Analyze the theme of A Psalm of Life (pg 345)‚ exploring how the historical context (political‚ social‚ philosophical‚ religious‚ ethical) influences this theme. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was rumored to have written “A Psalm of Life” after a long conversation with a Harvard professor‚ Cornelius Conway Felton. They discussed matters of the heart and things said only in a vulnerable and safe setting. This can be seen in Longfellow’s
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Tennyson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow were two writers heavily influenced by the romantic idea of embracing death‚ rather than fearing it. Their poems Break‚ Break‚ Break (Tennyson)‚ and The Tide Rises‚ the Tide Falls (Longfellow) use repetition and loaded words to convey the theme of accepting death in order to truly live. The writers are able to convey their theme through their symbolical/metaphorical use of the sea. In The Tide Rises‚ the Tide Falls‚ Longfellow uses the sea to represent nature’s
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published about this famous ride‚ but copious amounts of them are inaccurate. “Paul Revere’s Ride‚” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is not a credible source of information considering Revere does not execute the same things within these two pieces of literature‚ the British’s actions are not the same in the poem and the letter‚ and Revere is not alone on this famous night. Longfellow does not match his poem up with the true actions of Paul Revere. According to Longfellow’s poem‚ Revere waits for a signal;
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During his life‚ Longfellow was a well-known and famous poet. He received degrees from Cambridge and Oxford and was often visited by renowned figures from both America and Europe. He was so popular that his birthday was celebrated by many Americans (Allaback) and after his death he even had a bust of himself “placed in Westminster Abbey with the greatest English poets” (’Footprints on the sands of time’). After his death‚ his work began to be viewed as unimpressive. A big reason for this change
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between the historical account of Paul Revere’s ride and the poem “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.” Both texts talked about the British coming by sea to the colony. However‚ the people who saw the lanterns signals were different. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used history to make an interesting poem about Paul Revere’s ride‚ but altered historical facts such as the people who saw the lanterns to make Paul Revere look more heroic. In the historical account‚ the British came by sea‚ which is the same
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that appealed to a wide audience and families would spend time in the evenings reading their poetry by the fireside. Fireside poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier both used imagery in their poetry to help the reader picture scenes of nature with language that gives the elements of nature almost human-like qualities. For Longfellow the ocean comes alive in his poem The Tide Rises‚ The Tide Falls and for Whittier‚ he uses images of a winter storm in his poem Snowbound. In both
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people’s adventures at sea and the thrill and treachery of living through its perilous storms and disasters. Two very popular selections about the sea and its terrors are The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger and "The Wreck of the Hesperus" by Henry Longfellow. Comparison between the two works determines that "The Wreck of the Hesperus" tells a more powerful sea-disaster story for several different reasons. The poem is more descriptive and suspenseful than The Perfect Storm‚ and it also plays on a very
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Amanda Wright Mr. D’Ambrosio AP English Literature/Comp‚ Period 5 12 March 2015 Compare and Contrast Death is the subject of both poems‚ Remember and The Cross of Snow‚ written by Christina Rossetti and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow respectively. The authors use many literary techniques‚ such as imagery‚ mood‚ and metaphors to explore the grieving process from two different perspectives‚ the dead in Remember and the living in The Cross of Snow. Although the poems have some similarities‚ they are
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