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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807. He was a widely read and highly regarded poet of the nineteenth century. Longfellow was successful in both lyric and narrative poetry and later wrote incredible sonnets. He was not a poet of extremes, intense passion, or tragedy. He was gentle and optimistic and felt the purpose of poetry was to embellish and sweeten life, He gener ....
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.... which contained the poem A Psalm of Life, which was written in quatrain stanza format.
"Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem."
This poem revolves around the idea of lifes pursuits. It is an optimistic view toward dealing with lifes purpose. Longfellow suggests a major purpose of life is learning more and advancing yourself through time, and t ....
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