Question

E 7 class comment
Q.1. What is the poet's philosophy in the poem?
Q.2. Write a note on "Psalm of Life" as an inspirational
poem.
Q.3. What are the figures of speech used in the poem
"Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

1)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 a dramatic monologue spoken by the "Heart of a Young Man" to a "Psalmist." In the poem, the speaker declares that living in the present is more godly than the kind of austere and restrained life the Psalmist champions. In doing so, the poem captures the spirit of carpe diem, or "seize the day."

2)A Psalm of Life” is an inspiring poem written by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. ... The poem is didactic in tone. The poem 'A Psalm of Life' often takes the subtitle “What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist“. This is very important in suggesting the context of writing this poem.

3)Personification is when the poet gives human traits to something nonhuman. In the first stanza of "A Psalm of Life," the speaker tells the Psalmist not to say that life is an empty dream because a soul that slumbers is dead. A person has a soul. That person/soul cannot be asleep in order to dream of life.