In Longfellow's “The tide rises, the tide falls.” you will find deep examples of imagery, and metaphors that have much more to them rather than just surface value. Longfellow showcases Romanticism’s ideal of finding truth in nature through the use of these rhetorical devices professionally .
First off Longfellow writes “Darkness settles on roofs and walls, But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands,”(Longfellow1) this quote contains not only a few examples of descriptive imagery, but its has two metaphors, these metaphors are explaining to the reader that nature is eternal, and at the end of the day when mans time has come to an end, waves will still be
First off Longfellow writes “Darkness settles on roofs and walls, But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands,”(Longfellow1) this quote contains not only a few examples of descriptive imagery, but its has two metaphors, these metaphors are explaining to the reader that nature is eternal, and at the end of the day when mans time has come to an end, waves will still be