What Is The Mood Of The Tide Rises Tide Falls

Title The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is a poem about life progression and development. There are three stanzas, which all start with, “the tide rises, the tide falls”. *add more* *intro sentence* In the first stanza, a traveller is on an important journey to get back to town, despite the strong tides that are rising and falling. He risks the tides to hurry to accomplish his task as the sky is slowly darkening and the birds call out to indicate it is almost nighttime. However, the traveller is unable to make it back to town because the tides pull him back into the sea as said in line 7, “But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;”. The footprints in the sand are wiped away by the waves, going back to the original state they were in. Night passes, morning arrives, but the traveller never made it back to shore and into town. Nonetheless, the tides continue to rise and fall at the shore. …show more content…
When the poet used the word, “dark”, it made the poem sound melancholic. It made me feel empty and haunted inside because when “darkness calls”, the mood becomes haunted as if you were in a haunted house on Halloween night. I feel that this poem has a legato and flowing toneto it. It rhymes with a scheme of AABBA. At the beginning of each stanza, it starts with, “the tide rises, the tide falls”. In line 6 & 7, the traveller loses to the tides and is dragged back into the sea. However, even after the waves erase the footprints in the sand, the traveller is forgotten and the tides continue.*add sentences here* Life goes on after tragedy, and time washes away the impact man has