Essays Tagged: "Psalm of Life"

Robert Frost

is anthology is our late twentieth-century "revisionist" Longfellow, and except in poems such as "A Psalm of Life," he is almost unrecognizable as a writer who might have written those famous poems. I ... gfellow is accessible, and the fact is that in almost any class there will be students who adore "A Psalm of Life" and students who cannot stand it. Such a division, of course, presents the teacher wi ...

(2 pages) 52 2 3.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Pursuit for the Meaning of Life

aningful -it opens a window for us to see how people's tastes changed over centuries . The poems" A Psalm of Life" by Longfellow and "After Apple-Picking" by Frost both deal with one subject--"the mea ... ular forms and many more.An easy access to a poem is to know what is about first. From the title "A Psalm of Life" and the repetition of the word "life" over and over again, Longfellow makes his topic ...

(3 pages) 45 0 3.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry