The Arrow And The Song

Long long afterward in an oak i found the arrow still unbroke.

The arrow and the song. It represents the genuineness of our heart. The arrow and the song stanzas for comprehension. For who has sight so keen and strong that it can follow the flight of song. Parallelism is important in the poem.

Henry wadsworth longfellow a well known american poet and educator wrote the arrow and the song the poem is a famous lyrical about the impacts of a song and its comparison with the arrow shot in the air. Long long afterward in an oak. Each stanza has four lines making it a quatrain. Summary of the arrow and the song.

And the song from beginning to end i found again in the heart of a friend. Structure the poem is composed of three stanzas. For so swiftly it flew the sight could not follow it in its flight. He achieved a level of national and international prominence previously unequaled in the literary history of the united states and is one of the few american writers.

The arrow and the song is a poem written by henry wadsworth longfellow. We may or may not get back the returns from the material world for our deeds but if our songs are genuine we can certainly get a true echo of ourselves in the hearts of people and friends. The first and second stanza strongly mirror each other grammatically and in fact. And the song from beginning to end i found again in the heart of a friend.

The rhyme scheme is aabb throughout the poem. And the song from beginning to end i found again in the heart of a friend. Arrow represents our material world and song represents the subjective spiritual world. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow each.

Oxford english dictionary oed links on. I found the arrow still unbroke. Long long afterward in an oak i found the arrow still unbroke. Popularity of the arrow and the song.

Due to the meter and rhyme scheme each quatrain is composed of two couplets. I shot an arrow into the air it fell to earth i knew not where. Henry wadsworth longfellow 1807 1882. Each line is either eight or nine syllables long and rhymes with the last so that there are a total of eight couplets.

The arrow and the song 1845 henry wadsworth longfellow. The poem demonstrates the metaphoric journey of an arrow and a song. I breathed a song into the air it fell to earth i knew not where. For who has sight so keen and strong that it can follow the flight of song.

For who has sight so keen and strong that it can follow the flight of song. Breathed a song into the air. Henry wadsworth longfellow was one of the most widely known and best loved american poets of the 19th century. I breathed a song into the air it fell to earth i knew not where.

I shot an arrow into the air it fell to earth i knew not where for so swiftly it flew the sight could not follow it in its flight. The arrow and the song. It was first published in 1845.