Question

why is life compared to the battlefield and how is life like a temporary camping ground?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Longfellow’s poem ‘A Psalm of Life’ is essentially concerned with the meaning and potential of this life. The speaker slams the pessimists and glorifies this life as ‘real’ in an attempt to challenge the Biblical teaching that says ‘Dust thou art, to dust thou returnest’. In this connection, the poet has compared this world to a vast battlefield and this life to a bivouac (a temporary camp). The troop of soldiers are sent to the camps giving certain duties in a war. Similarly we are sent to this temporary and worldly life with certain duties to perform. Hence the comparison is very apt here.

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