Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine on February 27, 1807. His mother was the daughter of a Revolutionary War hero and his father was a member of Congress. He graduated from Bowdoin College and then returned to teach there. His first book that he published was Outre Mer (Overseas). After his first wife died, he took a teaching position at Harvard. His first collection of poems, Voices of the Night and Ballads and Other Poems showed people triumphing over adversity. This theme was very inspiring to a struggling young nation.
He remarried to Frances Appleton and this gave him new found confidence to continue writing. He then, wrote Hiawatha, about Native Americans in a positive and imaginative light. In 1854, Longfellow became occupied with national events. As the country moved toward civil war, Longfellow wrote Paul Revere's Ride as a call for courage in the impending conflict.
After his wife died in 1861 he did not publish anything for two years. However, after those years he published many other popular poems and received several awards before his death in 1882. Walt Whitman wrote, about Longfellow's death, "I should have to think long if I were ask’d to name the man who has done more and in more valuable directions, for America." To learn more about Whitman click here.
Sami Horsley and Samantha Krampe
Cooper: He would have agreed with Longfellow's view on Native Americans. Longfellow shed a positive and imaginative light on Native Americans. Cooper agreed with his views because he also supported the Native Americans.
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Mason
Longfellow taught Emerson at one point in his life and this had a very big impact in the way that Emerson wrote! This impact led Emerson to write in the way of Transcendentalism.It Also led me to become the leader of this movement.
Poe, was also a poet like Longfellow. Unlike Longfellow, he would create poems that were more about death and the afterlife. Poe did not have a great did not look at life the same as Longfellow. He viewed it with despair not hope and light.
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Horace Mann
ReplyDeleteLongfellow like Horace Mann would agree with the Education Reform. Longfellow was a teacher he valued education highly and he spent many years as a student. Horace and Longfellow would have the same opinions on the subject of the educational reform. Therefore we support Henry Longfellow.
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I find it odd that he likes Native Americans. He must have been very intelligent because he went to Harvard. He sounds like he would make many people happy with his intellectual skills.
ReplyDeleteI find it odd that he likes Native Americans. He must have been very intelligent because he went to Harvard. He sounds like he would make many people happy with his intellectual skills.
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Melville: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, you and I are quite alike. We both use our writings to show our opinions on the events going on around us, and make our words have a deeper meaning. Some of these happenings include: slavery and adversity.
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