"A Psalm of Life" was written by the famed New England poet and professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. First published in 1838 in the New York literary magazine The Knickerbocker, the poem was inspired by a conversation between Longfellow and a fellow professor. As such, the poem is framed as...
One of the most prominent messages in, A Psalm of Life, would be to not dwell on the past. There is no way to go back in time and change a specific event that occurred. Longfellow discusses how one should only focus on the present, and stop reminiscing on moments that he or she can...
CUNARD, Nancy. Psalm of the Palms andth Century