A Tide Rises The Tide Falls

“A Tide Rises, the Tide Falls:” Accepting Reality The poem “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” talks about how nature is very powerful and beautiful and we humans are frail and inconsequential. The author makes a point that nature has the ability to “efface footprints in the sands” (line 9). It relates to the world we live in by symbolizing life with stuff we are familiar with seeing everyday. The ocean doesn’t cease to move, its tide rises and falls, and its waves crash on forever. In life people constantly come and go because no one lives for an eternity. “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” equals life development and progression. The meaning of the poem is that how a person is unable to stop the ocean, which erases footsteps …show more content…
He uses only masculine rhyme, and the first, second, and fifth line of every stanza share the same rhyme: -all. The rhyme scheme sets the tone for the poem, as the repetitive sounds broken by the different rhymes of the third and fourth lines imitate the rising and falling of the tide. He uses an array to emphasize the meaning and stress actions and creates an assonance by repeating the “a” vowel (Along the sea-sands damp and brown / The traveller hastens toward the town) , which gives the poem a sense of continuity. It is evident that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is trying to portray how people without a place to go at night or a family to be with (the lonely sea) are hoping that darkness doesn’t come, because the darkness and the coldness make them feel even more lonely. The author made the significance of the poem, even better by using allusion, imagery and personification. At first “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” was challenging and I was finding it hard to find the deeper meaning of the poem, but after analyzing it and using those three poetic elements I could see what the author