In “The Rainy Day,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow looks at these two opposing sides of life, the positive and the negative, and concludes that both are necessary. The theme of The rainy day is that even though your day might be dreary, and it makes you feel down and upset about everything in life, that you shouldn't have any worries; that you should still look forward to the good in life, because it says, "Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;/Behind the clouds is the sun still shining." And at the end of the poem, it says that even though there is good in life, there will still be bad days, but there will always be good ones too to balance life.
In the first line, in the first stanza, the speaker say that “The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary,” you can see that the speaker is sad. The imagery of cold, darkness, and rain creates a mood of extreme unhappiness. The speaker say the wind is “never weary” when in contrast, sounds weary—weary of life. Everything he looks at reminds him of his despair. In the third live the speaker say “The vines still clings to the moldering wall,”. The word moldering suggests decay and death. In the 4 the speaker say “But at every gust the dead leaves fall,”. The leaves that fall are symbolizing the idea of life’s ending. At the end of the first stanza the speaker says“And the day is dark and dreary.” Longfellow’s use of repetition emphasizes the darkness and dreariness.
Their is more repetition in the second stanza. The repetition emphasizes the sadness and gloom that the speaker feels. This stanza describes more rain, more darkness, more “never weary” wind. The second stanza gives the reader new information about the speaker, the reader is given a glimpse of why the speaker is sad. The speaker is sad because he is no longer young, he keeps dwelling uselessly on bygone times. In line 8 he says, “My thoughts still cling to the moldering Past,” this proves that speaker is sad because he is...