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Ode to Life is a poem written by henry wadsworth longfellow. Author's brief introduction Longfellow was born on February 27th, 1967 in Portland, Maine, in the home of Stephen Longfellow and Chipa Longfellow. At that time, he was a resident of a district in Massachusetts, and he grew up in what is now called Wadsworth Longfellow's home. His father was a lawyer, and his grandfather, Fallot Wadsworth, was a general. He was named after his mother's brother Henry Wadsworth, a naval lieutenant who died in the battle of Tripoli three years ago. Young Longfellow is the second of eight children; His brothers and sisters are Stephen (1805), Elizabeth (1808), Anne (18 10), Alexander (18 14) and Mary (/). Henry wadsworth longfellow was admitted to a girls' school at the age of three and to a private school at the age of six. During his years there, he won a reputation for being diligent and eager to learn, and he can speak Latin fluently. His mother encouraged his enthusiasm for reading and learning and introduced Robinson Crusoe and Don Quixote to him. He published his first poem entitled "Battle of Lovel Pond" in the Portland Gazette on1/month 17. He stayed at Portland Art Institute until he was 14 years old. As a child, he spent most of the summer on his grandfather's farm in Hiram, western Maine. 1In the autumn of 822, 15-year-old Longfellow and his brother Stephen entered Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. His grandfather was the founder of the college, and his father was a director there. Longfellow met nathaniel hawthorne, who later became his lifelong friend. He stayed with a priest for a while, and then lived on the third floor of the main hall, the address is 6543 8+0823. He joined the Pechin Association, a group of students with federalist tendencies. When he was in the third year of high school, Longfellow wrote to his father about his ambition: I don't hide it at all ... In fact, I am most eager to get ahead in literature in the future, and my whole soul burns most enthusiastically after that, and all the thoughts in the world are concentrated on it ... I can almost confidently believe that if I can achieve something in this world, it must be because I have exerted my talents in the vast field of literature. He pursued his literary goals by contributing to various newspapers and magazines, partly because he was encouraged by a professor named Thomas Cogsworth Urban. From 1824 1 month to 1825, he has published nearly 40 short poems. About 24 of them appeared in the short-lived Boston journal American Literature Bulletin. When Longfellow graduated from Bowdoin College, he ranked fourth in his class and was elected to phi beta kappa. He gave the students a comment address. Background Longfellow wrote this poem shortly after completing the anthology in Germany. Johann wolfgang von goethe, a male writer, was deeply inspired by him. His inspiration for writing this article also comes from a sincere conversation with his friend and Harvard professor cornelius Conway felton. The two spent an evening "discussing the problem of being close to one's soul: how to face oneself bravely in the battle of life: and make full use of everything". The next day, he wrote Ode to Life. This poem was first published in "bloomers", and its signature was only "L". Longfellow got five dollars for publishing, but he never got paid. Hymn of Life and Longfellow's other early poems, including The Country Blacksmith and The Remnants of Haitz Purus, were collected and published in 1839 as the Voice of the Night. The book sold for 75 cents. /kloc-in the summer of 0/838, longfellow wrote the light of the stars, a poem he called "the second hymn of life". In fact, they are all found on the following web pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Psalm_of_Life..