The Tide Rises

In the imaginary aspect of The Tide Rises, one can put so much effort to notice various things that are occurring in the poem. A image of how greater of everyone's life, it's going to turn out. In which the beauty of death is on how we live, but others come to replace us. In the second stanza, “ The twilight darkens, the curlew calls”, it looks like it's getting darker in the day or in other words our life is coming to an end. Following there is a part where seems quite interesting, “Along the sea-sands damp and brown/ The traveler hastens toward the town,/ And the tide rises, the tide falls.” I observe that the traveler is in a rush or sort to get to the town, which can mean that the last moments of his life, he wants to spend it in this town, maybe someone he cares about such as family. …show more content…
This can signify that even if he rushes to where he wants to be, he will be washed away or perish, although someone else will take his spot and this whole cycle will repeat. That may be the reasoning why that phrase is put throughout the whole poem. A different part of the poem is in the second stanza, line 1, “Darkness settles on roofs and walls,/ But the sea, the sea in darkness calls.” In my opinion, this shows that death has already chosen who to take and now the sea which is life is ready to take them away. The sea calls, it has so much meaning in my view. I examine it as our creator or that one object that is here to take us to where our own selves belong such as another world which our soul would live in. I imagine the sea calling with its natural characteristics, such as the waves crashing and the sound of the waves when they return back and repeat by crashing again, continuing for