Summarize the poem A Plasm of life
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“A Psalm of Life,” is written by the American poet Henry Wadsworth was once very widely read and just as widely admired. Today, however, the poem is often mocked for its allegedly incoherent imagery and its supposedly empty rhetoric. In the poem, the speaker responds to Biblical teachings that all human life is vain and that human beings, made of dust, eventually return to dust. The poem’s subtitle, What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist, is significant. First, the subtitle implies that the speaker of the poem is willing to question traditional wisdom, or at least some interpretations of that wisdom. Second, the subtitle identifies the speaker as a person in an early stage of life, so that his apparent rejoinder to parts of the Bible can be read as a reflection of his youth, particularly given the passion and enthusiasm with which his views are expressed. In any case, the poem was widely read, often memorized, and broadly influential, particularly in the nineteenth century.
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