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Homework

In this essay, I am going to show the relationship between the values of  fairness  and  justice  with the poems:  “A Psalm of life”  and  “The tide rises, the tide falls” , both written by the same author, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, that trough metaphors shows different ways to see life.  In the case of the poem “A Psalm of life”, Longfellow shows the perspective of a young man that is speaking “from his heart” and cannot accept that “Life is but an empty dream”, or that the goal of life is dead, because it is  not just  with his feelings and ideals of life. Instead, he thinks life is about acting and going beyond the sorrow and the happiness. It is about fighting for what is  just  and  fair  for everyone, like a hero, always been guide by God and his laws. In addition, the young man says life is about, leaving our “footprint on the sands of time”, so we can influence or guide other persons in the future for following our (I suppose) good example, and living the moment, because we c