Themes · 1845
And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • The Arrow and the Song
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker finds a whole song again in a friend’s heart. Something once expressed has survived through another person’s feeling or memory. The image gives friendship a preserving power, making the return of the song an experience of connection rather than merely recollection.
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