Tide Rises The Tide Falls

The poem “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” by Henry Longfellow is an interesting poem because the poem has many different interpretations of the poem by the reader. This poem starts with the description of the night, the sand, the ocean, and the traveler that reaches the shore and all these main ideas have a lot more meaning behind when fully understood. This poem is very short, containing only 15 lines, but this poem has tremendous meaning and imagery to it. When reading the poem you notice the repetition of “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls’ at first glance, this is somewhat confusing, however the repetition of this phrase puts an emphasis on the meaning behind the poem. The tone of this poem is very smooth and confident this is due to use of words and transition throughout phrases.

Throughout the poem “The Tide Rises The Tide Falls” the author refers to the essence of time in relation to someone's life. “The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; Along the sea sands …show more content…
The traveler arrives at shore in the first stanza having no effect on the reader or the meaning behind the poem, but in the third stanza is where there’s meaning behind the traveler returning to the shore. “The day returns, but nevermore returns the traveler to the shore.” these lines are left for the reader to be interpreted, but the true meaning behind these lines are that life is like a cycle, it will always go on no matter what. “The Tide Rises The Tide Falls” demonstrates how life is a cycle that keeps coming back and that time won’t stop for you no matter what happens and that the day will always come back due to it also being a cycle. This theme was communicated through the poet’s use of literary devices, phrases, imagery, and the repetition of “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”. Life has the ability to keep on going without us, even when we aren’t here anymore which is a life lesson that should never be