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Mezzo Cammin Analysis
Author: Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Type: Poetry Views: 641
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Half of my life is gone, and I have let
The years slip from me and have not fulfilled
The aspiration of my youth, to build
Some tower of song with lofty parapet.
Not indolence, nor pleasure, nor the fret
Of restless passions chat would not be stilled,
But sorrow, and a care that almost killed,
Kept me from what I may accomplish yet;
Though, half way up the hill, I see the Past
Lying beneath me with its sounds and sights,--
A city in the twilight dim and vast,
With smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleaming lights.--
And hear above me on the autumnal blast
The cataract of Death far thundering from the heights.
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I don't believe the entire poem is regretful. the first to stanzas have a regretful tone yet the last section compares his past to a city with soft bells gleaming lights and smoking roofs, all which have positive connotations. Therefore I believe that thought the first two stanzas have a regretful tone, the last stanza suggests that he is content with the life he led though it was not as lofty a life as he would have hoped
| Posted on 2008-12-08 | by a guest
In this poem, Longfellow portrays the speaker as a man in a mid-life crisis who regrets not having acomplished much of what he wanted in his life. He feels great sorrow due to the death of his first wife. He regrets not having written great poetry and regrets not being a great poet. This is bascially it.
| Posted on 2008-07-09 | by a guest
In this poem, Longfellow portrays the speaker as a man in a mid-life crisis who regrets not having acomplished much of what he wanted in his life. He feels great sorrow due to the death of his first wife. He regrets not having written great poetry and regrets not being a great poet. This is bascially it.
| Posted on 2008-07-09 | by a guest
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