Question

What is the significance of the image"muffled drums"?

Answer 1

Answer:

Longfellow compares this situation of our heart to the beating of the clothed drums at the funeral marches to the grave. Here the message is that we should utilize our limited time span to the fullest instead of wasting it in the thought of death or other such thing.

Answer 2

Answer:

Longfellow compares this situation of our heart to the beating of the clothed drums at the funeral marches to the grave. Here the message is that we should utilize our limited time span to the fullest instead of wasting it in the thought of death or other such thing.