Lumbermen in their winter camp, day-break in the woods, stripes of snow on the limbs of trees, the occasional snapping, The glad clear sound of one’s own voice, the merry song, the natural life of the woods, the strong day’s work, The blazing fire at night, the sweet taste of s...
Or waiting to arrive, or pass’d on farther than those of the earth, I henceforth no more ignore them, than I ignore my own life, Or the lives of the earth arrived as far as mine, or waiting to arrive. O I see now that life cannot exhibit all to me—as the day cannot, I see...
Free Essay: The American Prairie Have you ever wondered what the prairies in the United States may have looked like before the grasslands became over...
It was this latter revision that Longfellow used as the basis for The Song of Hiawatha. Longfellow began Hiawatha on June 25, 1854, he completed it on March 29, 1855, and it was published November 10, 1855. As soon as the poem was published its popularity was assured. However, it also...
Don Kerr’s "Editing the Prairie" is a poem about the various landscapes, or lack thereof in Saskatchewan. Kerr presents the prairie in a sarcastic, critical way that many prairie people can make connections to. Though his outlook on the prairies seems rather bleak, Kerr’s poem presents ver...
I could not stay at the West.It was never really home to me there,and my sojourn of six or seven years on the prairies only deepened my love and longing for the dear old State of Massachusetts.I came back in the summer of 1852,and the unwritten remainder of my sketch is chiefly that...
waspublishedNovember10,1855.Assoonasthepoemwaspublisheditspopularitywasassured.However,italsowasseverelycriticizedasaplagiaryoftheFinnishepicpoemKalevala.LongfellowmadenosecretofthefactthathehadusedthemeteroftheKalevala;butasforthelegends,heopenlygavecredittoSchoolcraftinhisnotestothepoem.TheSongofHiawatha2Iwould...
The Raven:the main theme of the poem is one of undying devotion,the narrator experiences a perverse confilict between desire to forget and desire to remember.he seems to get some pleasure from focusing on Loss.the narrotor assumes that the word"nevermore”is the raven's "only stock and ...
Lines You'll Love: "Taking the hands of someone you love/You see they are delicate cages/Tiny birds are singing/In the secluded prairies/And in the deep valleys of the hand." "A Statue of Eros" By Zenodotos Lines You'll Love: "Who carved Love/and placed him by/this fountain/thinkin...
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd poem written by Walt Whitman... the infinite separate houses, how they all went on, each with its meals and minutia of daily usages .../