Three Works by Longfellow

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American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is known for his poetic imagination and diversity. The subjects of his poems range from serious to light-hearted, all written with perfect rhyme and meter. This paper examines Longfellow's style and techniques in the poems, "A Psalm of Life", ?"he Rainy Day", and "The Children's Hour".

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""The Children's Hour" also contains vivid imagery that helps us envision the castle in which the poem takes place. He paints a clear portrait of the girls in the lamplight that shines in the stairway by "three doors unguarded" (19). We see the poet's use of metaphor when he calls the children's rush in the room a "raid" (18) and the contrast of their youth to his age when he refers to himself as an "old mustache" (31). Additionally, Longfellow also uses the castle as a metaphor of his heart, which will secure the father's love for his children always."

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