A Psalm of Life

Today I read a new poem with the title A psalm of life. It is written By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . This poem mainly indicates the life that how we should set our goals and how should we use life. A psalm of life is didactic in nature as it glorifies and says that it is precious and so, we should not waste it. Rather, we should use this life to do something meaningful and remarkable so that people would remember us forever in the future. The goal of our life should be to work diligently, act wisely and try to become better because the soul lives on forever. I am reading this poem because it is in my English school textbook and I like it. In the poem, my favourite line is art is long, and time is fleeting and our hearts, though stout and brave in which art means work, long means plenty, fleeting means running away and stout means strong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original and the best works include the poems “Paul Revere’s Ride”, “The Song of Hiawatha”, and “Evangeline”. He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighien’s Divine Comedy. He was known as one of the fireside poets. The group includes the famous poets – Henry wadsworth longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, john Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell.