The poem titled ‘’The Tide Rises the Tide Falls’’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dramatizes life, death and the natural cycle of life. It’s about a traveler's last moments before dying; taking place in several settings, such as the seashore, the town, and a stall. To communicate the theme, H. Longfellow utilizes mainly metaphor, personification, imagery, antithesis, symbolism, and diction.
The title “The Tide rises the Tide falls” accentuates the main theme of the poem, because tides symbolize the eternity of nature. The rising of tide represents life, and it’s falling death; meaning the cycle of life. This states the main theme: no matter what happens life goes on and nature will keep it’s course. It can be noted that the author utilizes …show more content…
The rhyme scheme and these words contributes to the repetitions and flow of the poem and emphasises on the ending of the cycle of life (death.) Further, the poet uses literary devices on several verses throughout the poem to communicate his message of the cycle of life. Metaphor is found on the second stanza ’The little waves, with their soft white hands efface the footprints in the sands’’ The waves, representing time, erase any marks left by the traveler . This metaphor communicates the traveler’s death. But also communicates in a deeper meaning that, time erases everything. We also find personification on the poem, for instance ‘’the curlew calls’’ and ‘’the sea in the darkness calls and calls’’ H.Longfellow adds personification when he writes about the sea and the curlew calling. We find metaphor as well in these sentences, because the sea’s and the curlew’s calling represents death being near the travelers life. Moreover, the poem itself is an antithesis. Through its literary devices it communicates the cycle of life, and constantly addresses both subjects, life and death, as seen on the first two stanzas, where death was implicated though metaphors. As well as on the last stanza where life was implicated as
The title “The Tide rises the Tide falls” accentuates the main theme of the poem, because tides symbolize the eternity of nature. The rising of tide represents life, and it’s falling death; meaning the cycle of life. This states the main theme: no matter what happens life goes on and nature will keep it’s course. It can be noted that the author utilizes …show more content…
The rhyme scheme and these words contributes to the repetitions and flow of the poem and emphasises on the ending of the cycle of life (death.) Further, the poet uses literary devices on several verses throughout the poem to communicate his message of the cycle of life. Metaphor is found on the second stanza ’The little waves, with their soft white hands efface the footprints in the sands’’ The waves, representing time, erase any marks left by the traveler . This metaphor communicates the traveler’s death. But also communicates in a deeper meaning that, time erases everything. We also find personification on the poem, for instance ‘’the curlew calls’’ and ‘’the sea in the darkness calls and calls’’ H.Longfellow adds personification when he writes about the sea and the curlew calling. We find metaphor as well in these sentences, because the sea’s and the curlew’s calling represents death being near the travelers life. Moreover, the poem itself is an antithesis. Through its literary devices it communicates the cycle of life, and constantly addresses both subjects, life and death, as seen on the first two stanzas, where death was implicated though metaphors. As well as on the last stanza where life was implicated as