Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The speaker recalls a bright day amid rain, when flowering trees, a river, and familiar friends could not ease his grief over Hawthorne's absence. His memory settles on the pine-covered burial hill and the writer's unfinished tale, which he believes must remain incomplete.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Genre: Elegy, Literary Tribute · 347 words
First lines
May 23, 1864
How beautiful it was, that one bright day / In the long week of rain! / Though all its splendor could not chase away / The omnipresent pain.
Genres
- Elegy — The speaker mourns a missing friend, recalls his voice above his resting place, and laments the writing interrupted by his death.
- Literary Tribute — The closing stanzas commemorate the dead writer through his abandoned pen and a comparison between his unfinished tale and Aladdin's unfinished window.
Tags
mourning · remembrance · death · unfinished writing
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Elegy, Literary Tribute
- Length: 347 words
- Structure: 1 section, 10 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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