Fairness and Justice in ¨A Psalm of Life¨ and ¨The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls¨
Being just means that you give people what they deserve. When you are being fair it means that you are handling a situation free from bias or injustice, with an even hand, not necessarily giving or applying something to someone. You cannot sense the presence of justice at first when superficially reading "A Psalm of Life", for this is not exactly the message that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, its author, wants to give and share for people to reflect on. The main message of the poem is to live actively and do not lament our past or take the future as granted; but our two values, fairness and justice, are not present in the "future as granted" part, but in the part of "lamenting our past", in the third stanza you can sense that the author thinks that life will not always be unfair or injust all the time, or easy and favoritable in all the situations we encounter in our lifes, presenting our two values almost directly to us, even though mostly careful readers only will actually see these two values slightly implied in the poem, they both are definetely in there, faintly present in the main message of our first poem.
For "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls", I can see these two values being vaguely present too, the main message for our second poem is that nature will always prevail and continue its cycle, while us humans are always going to be frail, and we depend on nature to continue to live on. We can in part infer from all of the stanzas, that not matter what happens, nature´s cycle will keep on, and this is not unfair, for life does not judge us, it just keeps on going, and with life, and thus, life will be at the end just with us for what we hace done, as people in the course of history have seen, but neither of these two values are explicitlely referred to in the poem, and they can only be applied if you look specifically for them when reading or analyzing more deeply the poem.
In conclusion, these two poems do not adress directly our two values, fairness and justice, but they can be applied in both of the main ideas of the poems if searched specifically. I don´t think Henry Wadsworth Longfellow intended to include neither of this values in the message of this two poems of his, but they take part in creating the idea that he wanted to create and share. I think you can sense that fairness and justice are a little bit more clearly applied in the message
For "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls", I can see these two values being vaguely present too, the main message for our second poem is that nature will always prevail and continue its cycle, while us humans are always going to be frail, and we depend on nature to continue to live on. We can in part infer from all of the stanzas, that not matter what happens, nature´s cycle will keep on, and this is not unfair, for life does not judge us, it just keeps on going, and with life, and thus, life will be at the end just with us for what we hace done, as people in the course of history have seen, but neither of these two values are explicitlely referred to in the poem, and they can only be applied if you look specifically for them when reading or analyzing more deeply the poem.
In conclusion, these two poems do not adress directly our two values, fairness and justice, but they can be applied in both of the main ideas of the poems if searched specifically. I don´t think Henry Wadsworth Longfellow intended to include neither of this values in the message of this two poems of his, but they take part in creating the idea that he wanted to create and share. I think you can sense that fairness and justice are a little bit more clearly applied in the message
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