Edgar Allan Poe And Longfellow Research Paper

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edgar Allan Poe are both highly esteemed poets from the past. Poe once wrote a poem called A Dream Within a Dream and it has many similarities to Longfellow’s poem A Psalm of Life. In these poems both authors talk about dreams. Edgar Allan Poe says that life is just a dream while Henry Wadsworth Longfellow states “Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream.” Also they both talk about life, and how to deal with life even if their view about life is completely opposite. There are also differences in Longfellow’s and Poe’s poem. An example of one is Poe is a pessimist while Longfellow is an optimist. Longfellow believed that life was real and wanted to see it that way, but Poe would rather his

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