A Comparison, Poe and Longfellow

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This essay compares Edgar Allan Poe's "Sonnet—To Science" with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life" and specifically contrasts each poet's use of perspective, symbolism, theme and use of poetic devices. The writer concludes that Longfellow's poem is the better of the two works. Four pages in length, four sources are cited.