The poem reminds us that life is not a dream, but very real, and urges us to live it to the full and not sit around waiting for death. It says that the purpose of life is not to have fun or indeed to...
A Psalm of Life is Longfellow's attack on the standard Christian position that our life on earth is unimportant, that the only thing that matters is what follows our death. Longfellow says that life...
..To the average person life is very real & physical , a dream implies something pleasant , but in this phrase the poet laments that life is not only an illusion , an image that we experience ,...