but who's to say there's no lasting damage? In the second stanza, the speaker breathes a song “into the air.” A song suggests something carefree and benign. Formless and free, it is the opposite of the arrow, but its destination is similarly unknown.
Does it represent our efforts to celebrate life rather than to damn it?
from Christopher Nield: The Epoch Times: The Antidote--Classic Poetry for Modern Life: A Reading of 'The Arrow and the Song' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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