tell me not, in mournful number,
life is but an empty dream!
for the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.

life is real! life is earnest!
and the grave is not its goal;
dust thou art, to dust returnest,
was not spoken of the soul.

not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
is our destined end or way;
but to act, that each to-morrow
find us farther than to-day.

art is long, and time is fleeting,
and our hearts, though stout and brave,
still, like muffled drums, are beating
funeral marches to the grave.

in the world’s broad field of battle,
in the bivouac of life,
be not like dumb, driven cattle!
be a hero in the strife!

trust no future, howe’er pleasant!
let the dead past bury its dead!
act,—act in the living present!
heart within, and god o’erhead!

lives of great men all remind us
we can make our lives sublime,
and, departing, leave behind us
footprints on the sands of time;

footprints, that perhaps another,
sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
a forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
seeing, shall take heart again.

let us, then, be up and doing,
with a heart for any fate;
still achieving, still pursuing,
learn to labor and to wait.

read henry wadsworth longfellow’s “a psalm of life.” what three themes does it
discuss?
a. dreams are meaningless things.
b. one must live life to the fullest.
c. brave actions can inspire others.
d. funerals decrease the joy of life.
e. the human soul is immortal.

B. One must live life to the fullest.

C. Brave actions can inspire others.

E.The human soul is immortal.

Explanation:

Although the writing has a somewhat sombre theme, the emphasis of the writer was on one living life to the fullest [option B]. In doing this[living life to the fullest], one would carry out brave actions that can inspire others [option C]. As eath is sure, when one does die, the legacy set by such a one lives on hence, the human soul is immortal [option E]

a

explanation:

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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