"The Windmill" poem by English poet H W Longfellow, Power Point Presentation done at Empowering English Class at Podar International School (CBSE) by Vedant Dhananjay Mankar of Std-VIth A.

1. Vedant Dhananjay Mankar
Podar International School (CBSE)

2.  Information about the Poet
 Justification of the title
 Use of imaginary and the symbolism in the poem
 Appreciation of the Poem
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3. Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine which was then a part
of Massachusetts. He studied at Bowdoin college. After spending
time in Europe, he became a professor at Bowdoin and later at
Harvard college. His first major poetry collections were “Voices
of the night” (1839) and “Ballads” and others poems (1841).
Information about the Poet -

4. Longfellow retired from teaching in
1854, to focus on his writing, living the
remainder of his life in Cambridge
Massachusetts in a former revolutionary
war headquarters of George Washington.
His first wife Marry Potter dies in 1835,
after a miscarriage. His second wife
Frances Appleton died in 1861, after
sustaining burns when her dress got fire.
Longfellow had difficulty writing poetry
for a time. He died in 1882.

5. Appreciation of the Poem –
I personally like the sweet and simple personality that Longfellow
gives to his subjects. In this poem Longfellow uses
personification to make the Windmill come alive.

6. 1) In this poem the windmill is
telling about it’s daily routine.
2) It tells that it is a very huge
creature and every day it helps
his master’s way of earning.
3) He says without him, his master
cannot live and he is very
important to his master.
4) He says that only on Sundays he
has no work to do, he rests and
listens to church bells on the
Sunday.