The Village Black Smith

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By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Village Black Smith
Presented by Joby John B.Ed.English Reg.No.SEAA142
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882)

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet
  and educator

• About the Poem The Village Black Smith

• This poem emphasizes how the life and work of a
  common working man can provide an example of
  persistence and accomplishment in spite of trials
  and tragedies

It is developed in eight stanzas of six
ballad-like lines of alternating iambic
tetrameter and iambic trimeter.
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The Village Black Smith
Stanza-I

• Under a spreading chestnut-treeThe Village
  smithy standsThe smith, a mighty man is
  heWith large and sinewy handsAnd the muscles
  of his brawny armsAre strong as iron bands.

The Village BlacksmithManuscript
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What does the first stanza say?
The poem begins by picturing the site of
blacksmiths workplace as Under a spreading
chestnut-tree, then specifically describes the
smith himself as a man made strong by his work
mighty, with brawny arms strong as iron bands.
Works Cited

• Arvin, Newton. Longfellow His Life and Work.
  Boston Little, Brown and Company, 1963.
• Calhoun, Charles C. Longfellow A Rediscovered
  Life. Boston Beacon Press, 2004.
• "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow." Wikipedia. 24 March
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• "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow." The Literature
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