Whether you’re seeking inspiration, comfort, or simply a moment of reflection, these quotes offer a glimpse into the poetic genius of Longfellow and the profound insights he has to offer. Today, we’ve gathered the 41 best quotes from Longfellow’s extensive body of work. His timeless words and quotes continue to resonate with readers, making Henry Wadsworth Longfellow one of the most beloved poets in American literary history.
With a prolific career spanning over five decades, Longfellow is best known for his lyrical poems that explore the themes of love, nature, faith, and history. So this paper attempts an evaluation of the poem as a pastoral elegy in the light of the conventions of pastoral elegies in particular and elegy in general.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a renowned American poet and educator whose works have inspired and captivated audiences for generations. This paper argues that as an elegy this poem, having universal appeal, is no less attractive and appealing than other great pastoral elegies in English Literature. Though the poem, " The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket ", like other pastoral elegies, mourns the death of a single person, Warren Winslow, poet's own maternal cousin it also contains universal themes of death, love, crime and violence, sin and punishment, God and religion, loss of human values and virtues. This paper follows a comparative strategy and historical analysis to evaluate the poem as a pastoral elegy. In this poem Lowell has made an extraordinary fusion of the secular humanism and the spiritual maneuver to rail against the atrocities and merciless killings of the innocent people in the Second World War and the violence committed by soldiers and Quaker sailors at sea and shore alike.
Written in the background of the Second World War (1939-1945), which saw the deaths of the millions of people and loss of human values and chaos of virtues all over the world, the poem is a universal appeal to all humanity to give up violence and murder of the innocent and destruction on Nature, so that the perpetrators of cruelty can avoid the punishment of God and humanity can survive. Though it may be considered as a pastoral elegy, it has again multidimensional qualities or multiple angles, which are characteristics of Lowell's poems. This paper attempts an evaluation of " The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket " as an elegy, one of the best poems of Robert Lowell, the leading American poet of the 20 th century. Key words: Three schools, poems, human dignity, natural beauty The poems then emerged in Romantic period as the product of these new terms or newly innovative poetic system in poetry. They introduced the terms of human dignity and beauty of nature from their literary works mostly in poems.
The three schools of English Romantics were known as the pioneer of such significant ideas. The result shows that romantic human dignity and beauty of nature of Romantic period greatly influence the Romantic works at that time. Then, the data were analyzed by structural approach through intrinsic and extrinsic elements. The secondary data were taken from various books, articles, website on internet, and PDF. Primary data were collected from the poem of the three schools Tintern Abbey, La Belle Dame sans Merci, and Ozymandias. This research was written based on primary and secondary data. The writer carried out language based approach and used descriptive qualitative method in his analysis of the selected works of the three schools. These all signify the English Romantic works of the time. The research is aimed to present prominent ideas of three schools – Lake school, Cockney school and Satanic school – in revealing the natural beauty and human dignity represented from the ideas. Abstract The emergence of three schools in English Romantic brought change of the new ideas.
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