Poetry Analysis

I decided to analyze A day of Sunshine by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A day of Sunshine is about those perfect summer days, the ones where you do not want to work at all. Then the poem goes on to talk about how nature seems to dance and make music with itself. The wind dances around nature and how it is all so beautiful. Then at the end of the poem he asks if man can be as free as the wind.Some of the poetic devices that Longfellow used was a lot of imagery. In the poem he says

hear the wind among the trees
Playing celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument. (Longfellow)

this just make me think of a song and I can clearly see the image in my head. I thought it was really cool how he did that so masterfully and easily. The figurative meaning of the poem that I found was that even though people may feel free and happy, in reality most people are still bound by their own thoughts and boundaries. No on will ever be as truly free as the wind is and it is sad.

"A Day Of Sunshine. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Second) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow."PoemHunter.Com - Thousands of Poems and Poets.. Poetry Search Engine. Web. 28 Oct. 2010. .