Poem Analysis: The Tide Falls

“The Tide Rises, The TIde Falls:” The Way It All Ends
I chose this poem because it highly relates to the real world in the way we live and die. What began to grab my attention was the way it utilized the imagery and the way that it speaks about death in a hidden way, but yet in a sense that you are still able to understand that it is about the way life ends.
The poem's theme is death, it is the message of the author trying to tell us that life ends and people constantly come and go because no one lives for eternity,but yet life will still continue. Symbolically the poem is about death as it is represented by the “darkness”, the “effacement” of his footsteps in the sand, and the non-return of the traveler by the end of the poem.
When the author repeats the refrain, “The tide rises, the tide falls”, the rising tide is actually a metaphor for our journey through life. As well as “the twilight darkens” and “the curlew calls” being a metaphor for death. Because …show more content…
As well as repetition with the words “dark” and “sea”
The author gives out different sorts of tones throughout the poem, but are all around the same one, which happens to be ‘resignation’. Meaning we all must resign ourselves to the fact that we are little to nothing in the world and neither our presence or absence means a great deal, such as he implies that life still goes on after the traveler was gone.
“The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.”
This stanza is where we were given an additional sense that the theme is about death, because all of the evidence of the travelers existence was erased, such as his footprints in the sand being wiped away by the sea. In which he once again ends in, “The tide rises, the tide falls.” Because people come and go and everybody dies at some