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美国文学 期末考试 总结三 　　1. A Psalm of Life　　Analysis:　　Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins his poem A Psalm of Life with the same exuberance and enthusiasm that continues through most of the poem. He begs in the stanza to be told not in mournful numbers about life. He states here that life doesnt abruptly end when one dies; rather, it extends into another after life. Longfellow values this dream of the afterlife immensely and seems to say that life can only be lived truly if one believes that the soul will continue to live long after the dies. in the first. Longfellow states this clearly when he wr