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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1807- 1882 Graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825. Worked at Harvard University for 18 years. Lyric poet, translator, American history, Didacticism and free verse. Spent many years in Europe. . Biography . The Arsenal at Springfield. Simile

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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  1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  2. 1807- 1882 • Graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825. • Worked at Harvard University for 18 years. • Lyric poet, translator, American history, Didacticism and free verse. • Spent many years in Europe. Biography

  3. The Arsenal at Springfield

  4. Simile • “ From floor to ceiling. Like a huge organ.” • Gives us the setting. • Builds his ideas off of this sentence. • Contradictory statement. The Arsenal at Springfield

  5. Rhyme • “ ..From floor to ceiling, …rise the burnished arms; … pipes no anthem pealing … villages with strange alarms.” • Sound like quality and helps give the reader picture the scene. The Arsenal at Springfield cont.

  6. Allusion • “ dismal Miserere” • “the curse of Cain” • “ Through Cimbric forest roars” • “Distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong” • “ Aztec priests upon their teocallis” • “ Rings the Saxon hammer.” • Builds off his main statement. The Arsenal at Springfield cont.

  7. The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

  8. Repetition • “ And the tide rises, the tide falls.” • Gives the feeling the sense of a movement. Personification • “ The little waves, with their soft, white hands,” • Imaginative effect on the poem. The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

  9. Rhyme • “tide falls curlew calls; and brown the town tide falls.” • The sense of the tide. The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls cont.

  10. Alliteration • “ The morning breaks; the steeds in their stallsStamp” • Draws the readers attention to the line. • Metaphor Tide – life • The tide never ends just like life. The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls cont.

  11. Theme Cycle of life. • The world keeps moving with or without us. The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls cont.

  12. http://www.hwlongfellow.org/life_overview.shtml • http://www.nps.gov/spar/historyculture/arsenal-at-springfield.htm • http://fr.slideshare.net/linaizzie/the-tide-rises-the-tide-falls-15579829 • http://avoiceoutofthesilence.blogspot.fr/2011/07/tide-rises-tide-falls.html image • http://www.newenglandtravelplanner.com/literature/arsenal_poem.html image Bibliography

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