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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. ~ Great Expectations
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried than before,—more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
- Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations
- 1861
- sorrow tears crying shame
Jan 4, 2022 · Genesis 2:7 teaches that God created Adam from the dust of the earth: “The Lord God formed a man from the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” After Adam sinned, God informed him that he will toil the earth his entire life.
- Summary
- Analysis of A Psalm of Life
- About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The poem begins with the speakercontradicting a listener who wants to explain life to him as a matter of number and figures. The rest of the poem is dedicated to the speaker trying to prove this unknown person wrong. He describes the way in which he believes that no matter what death brings, the soul will never be destroyed. Because of this, it is ...
Stanza One
The speaker of ‘A Psalm of Life’begins by asking something of his listener. He is close to the point of begging, desperate that his worst fears (which will be revealed as the poem continues) are not confirmed. He is asking his listener at this point to “not” tell him that “Life is but an empty dream.” He does not want this person to break down the statistics, facts, and “numbers” of life, in an attempt to make sense of it. The speaker does not see, nor does he want to understand the world in...
Stanza Two
The narrator continues on with what reads as a desperate attempt to contradict what he was afraid of in the first stanza. He exclaims for any to hear that “Life is real!” And it is “earnest!” He is enthusiastically supportive of the idea that life is worth living and that it is worth something real. He believes that there is a reason to be alive other than getting to the grave. He elaborates on this belief when he describes the ending of life as belonging solely to the body, and not to the so...
Stanza Three
The speaker continues his discussion of the purpose or point of life, He does not believe, nor will he even consider, the possibility that life is made to suffer through. Additionally, he knows that “enjoyment” is not one’s predetermined destiny. There will be both of these emotions along the way, but the greatest purpose of life is “to act,” with the intent of furthering oneself and those around one. The narrator is confident in his beliefs and knows how to live his own life.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine in February of 1807.As a young man he was sent to private school, and alongside his peers was fellow writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow was a proficient student of languages and after school, traveled, at his own expense, throughout Europe where he refined his language skills. After this t...
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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried than before,—more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle. If I had cried before, I should have had Joe with me then.
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Sep 19, 2016 · One principle idea is the key to the overall meaning of the poem: That while man’s body goes to dust, man’s soul lives beyond the grave, and that our actions in the present can have future influence.
