Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a man of flowing words, was born on February 27, 1807, Portland, Maine. The first Longfellow came to America in 1676 from England. His mother was Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow. Her father, Peleg Wadsworth, had been a general in the Revolutionary War. His father, Stephen Longfellow, was a lawyer. He started school when he was three and became one of the school’s best students. Longfellow was naturally drawn to words. His mother read his brothers, sisters, and him the romance of Ossian, and Don Quixote. His favorite book, though, was Washington Irving’s “Sketch Book”. Longfellow once wrote later, “Every reader has his first book. I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth first fascinates his imagination,…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is American poet who wrote throughout 1873 to 1880, primarily influenced by the Romantic era. Born to the daughter of a Revolutionary War hero and an established lawyer, Longfellow was expected to attend college and follow his father’s footsteps. However he was more fascinated by the coastal culture of his town in Maine, fascinated by the stories of the sailors who detailed their exotic travels. Accordingly, Longfellow pursued his intrigue,…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an american poet and educator who was born in Portland, Maine, on February 27, 1807. He studied at Bowdoin College. He stayed some time in London but after a while of living there he became a professor at Bowdoin and then later on in his life, a professor at Harvard College. He is viewed by some as a great poem but others criticize him for some of his work. He lived his last days translating works from foreign languages and writing poems. Henry died in 1882. The…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an acclaimed poet in the 1800s and the first non-British writer to have a honorary bust placed in Poet’s corner, Westminster Abbey, in 1884 (Belanger 1). He was very popular during his time and still is today. Many events in Longfellow’s life influenced what he wrote about and his style. Longfellow’s travels, schooling, and obstacles in life wholly created Longfellow’s simple and sentimental style of writing that was so admired. To begin, Longfellow was a…

In the poem The Cross Of Snow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The author writes about a tragic death that happened to his wife eighteen years back. To express his emotions in a way that the readers can understand, the author uses devices like alliteration and metaphor in his poem. These devices help the author write a well developed poem that has a balance of emotions and a moral behind it. First of foremost, the author uses alliteration to connect his loss with the way he feels in terms of a…

Do you know what poetry is? Will poems are a type of rhythmical and metaphorical writing. There is various of poems in the world which are written by poets. There is an enormous amount of poet’s that people know. Like the author that make children’s books Dr.Seuss. My intimate person that makes poems is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I would say that he is my intimate person that make poems because what his poems are about and also the poem he made called "Paul Revere's Ride" which is the…

The Study of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: His Life and Writings Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a preeminent poet in his day and even if time has contrived to show that he is something less than the remarkable artist, he never claimed to be, we can still fondly read his work, which epitomizes 19th century. Born on February 27, 1807 in Portland, Maine to parents, Stephen and Zilpah Longfellow, Henry, from the start, had a reputation for being studious. Furthermore, among other accomplishments,…

“YOLO! We’re going to die anyways..” is a common saying people like to throw around when they do something risky. Whether it’s dangerous like skydiving or harmful to us like drugs, we like to say “We’re going to die either way” so our actions don’t look and feels as bad as they really are. In this poem the poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, contradicts that saying, which i find very intriguing. In this poem, Henry Wadsworth is saying not to live life in the pursuit of death, but instead live…

written by the person who experienced that moment and who was actually there. Furthermore, as poems use figurative languages that exaggerate things, it is not a good resource. These lead up to the poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which is a secondary source written as a third person point of view. Therefore, the poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is unreliable…

The poem “Mezzo Cammin” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is an Petrarchan sonnet that has an octave followed by a sestet. It explains the type of feeling the speaker is having with a main theme of death. The poem contains Longfellow’s self-reflective thoughts. He thinks about the passed time, past mistakes, his lost aspirations, his current situation and the hopes that he has for the future. He starts feeling as though he has not accomplished what he had hoped to by this point in his life, and he…