Auf Wiedersehen by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The speaker mourns departed friends and the daily absence of a beloved face. Belief that death is a beginning sustains the hope that separation is temporary and reunion will follow.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Genre: Elegiac Poetry, Lyric Poetry, Religious Poetry · 323 words
First lines
In Memory of J. T. F.
Until we meet again! That is the meaning / Of the familiar words, that men repeat / At parting in the street. / Ah yes, till then! but when death intervening / Rends us asunder, with what ceaseless pain / We wait for the Again!
Genres
- Elegiac Poetry — Dedicated to the memory of J. T. F., the poem laments separation by death and the familiar face missing each morning.
- Lyric Poetry — Rhymed stanzas express the sorrow of those left behind through a shared first-person voice.
- Religious Poetry — The closing stanzas ground the hope of reunion in faith and belief that death begins another existence.
Tags
mourning · bereavement · faith · afterlife · reunion
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Elegiac Poetry, Lyric Poetry, Religious Poetry
- Length: 323 words
- Structure: 1 section, 6 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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