Henry Longfellow is an American poet who writes about life and brings
             meaning to it in his poems. In several of his poems, the reader will find
             examples of life, love, death, contemplation, and inspiration. This paper
             depicts Henry Longfellow's poems through summaries and illustration's.
             In the poem "A Psalm of Life", Found in United States Literature by
             Robert Hayden, Longfellow discusses life and inspires one that life is worth
             living. This poem is a poem mainly of inspiration. In this poem, Longfellow
             takes what could be a bad situation and uses the right words to make that
             Longfellow discusses life in line two, "Life is but an empty dream"(98).
             In this line Longfellow is bringing out a bad situation, it is saying that life
             is empty, that it has no point. Also in lines five and six. "Life is real! Life
             is earnest! and the grave is not it's goal"(98), Longfellow is bringing out
             the good in that bad situation. He is saying life is their, one has to live is,
             a humans goal is not death, but life! Finally in lines seventeen through
             twenty "In the world's broad field of battle, in the bivouac of life, be not
             like dumb, driven cattle! Be hero in the strife!"(98). In these lines
             Longefellow is saying to get out their and live, do not run away from life!
             Throughout Longfellow's entire poem "A Psalm of life" their are words
             of inspiration. In lines nine thorough twelve "Not enjoyment, and not
             sorrow, is our destined end or way; but to act, that each tomorrow find us
             further then today"(98). These lines inspire one to move on, that one...