Response to “Changed” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow This poem expresses the emotions and unfamiliarity that results from change over time. It uses imagery to express negative and positive feelings that are evoked in the narrator by the same place. This change in feelings shows the evolution of people and their views. The narrator even asks himself, “[i]s it changed, or am I changed?” (Longfellow 6). His search for answers on what caused this emotional shift is explored but none the less he acknowledges that there was a change. Often times “[b]y the years that intervene” we gain experience that leads us to a reconstruction of ourselves that creates new attitude towards life (Longfellow 10). The use of imagery to evoke an emotion from a memory