Nature

=Nature=

In this poem, Longfellow relates the every day processes and omnipresence of nature to the folley of man. We see how Longfellow uses nature to relate to both life and death, symbolizing darkness with death, and a new day as life. Although the symbolic night (human life) and the regular night ends, a new day comes back every day, ready to shine its Renaissance of life. Nature is exemplified in a symbolic way, and in this way, it can be given a vise of personification - nature is given the attributes of life and death.

//"The morning breaks."// (line 11) ~ Symbolic of the very beginning of life - a baby coming into the world //"The twilight darkens, the curlew calls"// (line 2) ~ Symbolic for the very end of life, when we close our eyes and hear the voices surrounding us for the last time

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