TI And Longfellow

Improved Essays
The two essays that are being compared contrast are “A Psalm of life” by Longfellow and “Live your life” by TI. In the Longfellow essay, Longfellow is addressing that life is nothing but an empty dream. In TI version, the essay is about how people should just live their life. The similarity of these essays are that they both deal with life and to stay positive. The difference is the style in both of essays. Longfellow is in the Romanticism era while TI is in today’s society.

Longfellow point of view and words are much alike TI essays, However unlike TI, Longfellow tells about how people should be more concern about the present instead of the past and future. In Stanza 6, Lines 26-28 tells that you should trust no future and bury your

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    In this essay I will compare and contrast the two poems by presenting different examples. Titles can say a lot about a poem. Although titles can sometimes be misleading, they often establish the setting or portray the tone of the poem. The titles given to these poems are very similar because they establish the setting, but also serve different purposes. “Last…

    • 1057 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Or, it is equally likely that Longfellow did not care as much about historical accuracy as he did about creating a vivid picture of a patriot who acted bravely to arouse the country when a terrible danger was at hand.” Therefore, this shows that Longfellow did not care for being wrong it was 85 years in the past, but without him Paul Revere wouldn't be known like he is today. Dr. Martin King Jr. said that “we still need some Paul Revere of conscience to alert hamlet and every village of America that revolution is still at…

    • 518 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As unemployment has been a common issue in Australian society for decades, it is not surprising that people’s opinions are diverse. Renowned late 20th century Australian poets Geoff Goodfellow and Bruce Dawe both discuss unemployment in their respective poems ‘Don’t Call me Lad Dad’ and ‘Doctor to Patient’. Although, both poets are peers of similar background, each presents unemployment in a different light. In order to create and enhance their differing messages, Goodfellow and Dawe both use poetic devices such as setting, form, and language techniques. Yet, the way in which each poet applies these techniques significantly varies to provide their audiences with different insights into the theme.…

    • 875 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Althought both essays have completely different topics, they both have resembling points of view by share common two nonfiction elements of theme and style. In both essay its safe to say that, there themes were being comportbale with yourself. In “School of Hate” Erdely enlightened the readers how students of the “ LGBTQ” groups, were harrassed daily by school bullied for thier sexuality. Many students exspecially around the middle school age doesnt understand; everyone arent always on your side.…

    • 492 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls, he goes into depth about how life is mysterious and that all the events that happen to us will become some kind of lesson to be learned. Longfellow had experienced the deaths of both his wives, Mary Storer Longfellow and Frances Elizabeth Longfellow, who both had tragic endings. The feeling of distraught and depression for losing the two women whom he had grown to love and cherish was something that he felt so strongly, which had greatly impacted his work and life. We can see the distressful tone that is depicted throughout the poem. This was in one of his last collection of poems to be published nearing his time of death.…

    • 396 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    When We Lie Analysis

    • 479 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Adolf Hitler once said: “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” This quote explains how if you tell a lie in history enough people will start to believe that it is true. Longfellow could be stretching the truth about what really had happened. The poem it says that Revere rode around alone but that was not true. Many people may find this poem a good source of information, but many people may not.…

    • 479 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Working class hero is a very meaningful piece of music, sung by both artists. However, they have some differences. In Alan Jackson's piece it is more positive, uplifting, prideful and really relates to family.…

    • 379 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the novel The Rite of Passage by Richard Wright and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes poem, both show similarities through the novel and poem. The Rite of Passage by Richard Wright is about a fifteen year old boy named Johnny who lives in New York and starts out with a good life and a good family, but finds out devastating news that his family is a foster family. He ends up running away, because he has to leave his family and be sent somewhere else. He runs away and goes on the streets where he learns about living life the hard way. Whereas the poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes is about a mother who's suffered many challenges, but still does not give up.…

    • 588 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Anne would say to Longfellow that it is nearly impossible to see the good in the present and to look to it but rather to pray to god and trust in him that everything is meant to be the way it is currently. Anne would tell Longfellow that he is wrong when saying that the end goal is not to look forward to death because in death her things will be returned to her. Anne doesn't want to act in the present and would tell Longfellow that it is better to look to the future and what is waiting at the end of life. Longfellow says that people should be concerned with leaving their footprints while as Anne would reply that it is not important what we do on earth because all that matters will be in heaven.…

    • 138 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    While growing up, children learn various lessons from their elders that will eventually pay off at some point in their life. For instance, a teacher may request that a student wait their turn to speak, and therefore helps that child learn the virtue of patience. In both of the poems provided, a child or children are taught something, but, within the poems themselves, not both things being taught are beneficial. In "A Barred Owl" by Richard Wilbur, a little girl is shown by her parents that she does not need to be afraid of sudden noises she hears in the night.…

    • 758 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The first poem I am going to talk about is called “I hear America singing” written by Walt Whitman. The second poem is called “Let America be America again” by Langston Hughes. These two poems have a few similarities that I am going to talk about. The first similarity is that both of these poems themes are centered towards the main idea of America and the american dream.…

    • 438 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Longfellow Metaphors

    • 663 Words
    • 3 Pages

    WORKING TITLE The poem “The Cross of Snow” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow uses personification, symbolism, and metaphors to convey the themes of sorrow, grief, and eternal love. The poem revovles areound a grieving Longfellow who is mourning the loss of his wife who died in a fire eightteen years ago. Longfellow later came across a mountain with a cross filled with snow. The symbolism in the snow cross in the mountain symbplosez, true lover never dies.…

    • 663 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    This ending to the poem explains how all the days on Earth are numbered and any Earthly fame will be short-lived. The poet tells individuals to have their hearts be with heaven and their thoughts towards God and the skies and this will eventually lead to…

    • 1595 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When comparing two literary works, there is a lot to consider that make them similar or different. There are a lot of different aspects that go into creating a literary work, and so comparing two works can often be a complex process. In Young Goodman Brown and The Minister’s Black Veil there are many similarities and differences in these two works. The moods of the work are very similar, both have an air of mystery and darkness. This mood and atmosphere is created through multiple different techniques, such as symbolism, imagery and setting.…

    • 981 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    It is mainly a story that is used to catch the readers’ attention. Two young, carefree lovers make love in the clover fields and then walk home on this once magical walking trail that now seems to be old and abandoned. The second stanza, which began as a story of the past, reverted to the future in line 15, where it said, “Now they are gone for good.” (line 15). This sudden shift in time comes as a shock to the reader, who was enjoying a blissful description of the walking trail just moments ago.…

    • 1169 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays