The Rainy Day

The Rainy Day

A Poem By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Author's Background:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine—then still part of Massachusetts—on February 27, 1807, the second son in a family of eight children. His mother, Zilpah Wadsworth, was the daughter of a Revolutionary War hero. His father, Stephen Longfellow, was a prominent Portland lawyer and later a member of Congress.

My Point-of-view:

The author talks about the day in the first stanza. It's a cold, dark, and a dreary weather. For this somehow represents or symbolizes the loneliness in the poem, the sad theme in the poem. Even though the leaves or someone tries to hold on to something that is very difficult to handle, they tend to fall after some time.

His life is full of sadness, very cold, and dark, dreary. What ever he does, even though he tried holding on in the past, his hopes kept on falling apart, this makes it very sad.

Third part was talking about himself, his whole, his heart to still hold on. There's always sadness and downs in life, but then these problems in life are just obstacles and it's just temporary. We must not give up on something and it's fate, nobody can avoid a rain falling in their life, everyone need to fight their own Challenges. The days that are dark and dreary? They won't last forever.