Afternoon in February
The day is ending,
The night is descending;
The marsh is frozen,
The river dead.
Through clouds like ashes
The red sun flashes
On village windows
That glimmer red.
The snow recommences;
The buried fences
Mark no longer
The road o'er the plain;
While through the meadows,
Like fearful shadows,
Slowly passes
A funeral train.
The bell is pealing,
And every feeling
Within me responds
To the dismal knell;
Shadows are trailing,
My heart is bewailing
And tolling within
Like a funeral bell.
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Who wrote the poem "Afternoon in February"?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. He was one of the most famous American poets of the 19th century, both domestically and internationally, and was one of the few American writers honored in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine (then still part of Massachusetts). He studied at Bowdoin College and became a professor there and later at Harvard University. His poems were known for their musicality, often including stories of mythology and legend.
"Afternoon in February" explanation
The speaker in the poem describes a funeral
procession and a desolate wintry scenery in a late afternoon of February. The
overall sober and grim tone out of various imageries and metaphors accentuate a
deep sense of sadness of a person mourning a death. Relatively short verses
create a feeling of fast pace, which can be connected to the shortness of a
February afternoon.
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