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eptember edition of New York Monthly in 1893. It is very influential in China, because it is said to be the first English poem translated into Chinese.
The poem was written in 1883 when Longfellow was struck with great dismay. In 1834, his wife Mary accompanied him when he returned to Europe to study. Her poor health contributed to a miscarriage in 1835, and a few weeks later she died at age 22 in Rotterdam. They were only married for four years. And his courtship of a young woman was unrequited. His father died in 1849, his brother Stephen in 1850, and his mother in 1851. In 1854 he resigned his Harvard professorship—partly because of his eyesight, partly for relief from academic pressures and contention with the university corporation on behalf of his department, but probably most of all because he found he could support his household on the strength of his poetry and desired more opportunity for writing.
On July 9, 1861, tragedy again tormented Longfellow when his second wife died in a fire at age 44. While melting wax to seal envelopes containing cuttings of her children’s hair, Fanny dropped a match onto her dress. Longfellow tried to rescue his wife by smothering the flames with a rug only to receive terrible burns on his hands and face. Since shaving became difficult due to scars from the fire, Longfellow grew a beard. Deeply depressed, Longfellow immersed himself in translating Dante into English and returned to Europe.
Again, Longfellow coped with sorrow by plunging himself into literary work—this time of an intensely challenging sort. A project already well in hand that he was able to bring to completion was Tales of a Wayside Inn, the first part of which appeared in 1863. This collection consisted of narrative poems composed in a great variety of metric patterns. Although many of the poems had been written and even published separately beforehand, they were loosely held together in this book by the fiction of an assemblage of friends entertaining each other by storytelling at a Sudbury, Massachusetts Inn. This collection was Longfellow's version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales or Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron . Although Paul Revere's Ride and The Birds of Killingworth, the most familiar of these poems today, give an impression of New England focus, the great majority had European settings and sources. (Even "The Birds of Killingworth" was adapted from an English story.) Many, especially Torquemada and The Saga of King Olaf, were surprisingly violent for such a gentle poet. The framework Longfellow provided, however, allowed his six storytellers (the Landlord, the Student, the Spanish Jew, the Italian, the Musician, and the Theologian) to criticize each other's presentations and draw out lessons of tolerance, forgiveness, and faith.
    However, despite all the frustrations, Longfellow tried to encourage himself by writing a piece of optimistic work. The relationship of life and death is a constant theme for poets. Longfellow expresses his pertinent interpretation to that by warning us that though life is hard and everybody must die, time flies and life is short, yet, human beings ought to be bold “to act,” to face the reality straightly so as to make otherwise meaningless life significant.
2.1.2 The Background of The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
When he was so old and death was coming, Longfellow wrote The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, Which somewhat reflects L本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。