HandNotes

Longefellow

Bridge

• Pre-romantic
• They tried new forms that resonates the human heart
• Romantics are passionate and coherent
• Not all the lines are equal for syllable?
• Posing a question in every stanza
• Reminds Thomas Hardy Grave
• State of reflection, meditation for the meaning of afterlife
• Female, ambiguous mysterious woman
• Is it any woman or womanhood itself?
• Everyone is the same inside the grave, they wont talk
• Euphemism of death
• Contemplate about afterlife
• Biblical Dust- dust to dust
• Death is the great equalizer regardless of the statue
• Gentile tradition, being kind
• Book of Reckoning
• Contrast
  • Flesh and spirit
  • Moral vs earthly pleasures
  • religious truth