Longfellow's Relationship For Romantic Poetry

He loves writing and some of his stories involves his childhood. He wrote a poem about the city he lived called "My Lost Youth". He published his first book when he was only 13 years old called "Portland Gazette”. “My Lost Youth” is about how the war of 1812 affected Longfellow and his family. In the "My lost Youth" He talks about how the war of 1812 kind of took away his childhood because he did not get his drum and he had to watch a battle happened a mile away from home as well as watch bodies from those battles being buried. He wrote a poem called “The cross of snow” which was about his second wife’s death.Longfellow actually become the only american poet to have bust (a head made of stone) at Westminster Abbey in the Poet's Corner. His famous poems such as "Paul Revere's Ride", “Evangeline, A Tale of …show more content…
William Cullen Bryant, Charles Dickson, Ferdinand Freiligrath, his second wife, Fanny, traveling in Europe, and his childhood inspired him into writing and helped him become one of the famous poet during Romanticism. There are different time periods in life and writing is the same thing. There is never one type of writing for different time periods. It is almost like as people grow, they never stay the same. Romanticism was during the time of the American Industrial Revolution. Romanticism was a time where writers observed the development and occasions as America was continuing to grow. During this time, many events happened such as the Louisiana Purchase and the