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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Tide Rises The Tide Falls

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Among the Fireside poets, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is regarded as one of the most illustrious writers during the 19th century. In his compositions, “The Tide Rises the Tide Falls” and “The Song of Hiawatha”, we can discern several colloquial and innovative facets of the American Renaissance era. Moreover, unique components arose and assembled a superlative part in poetry. The blend of natural beauty, as well as a minute quantity of gothic and grotesque elements, were introduced and implemented in this western and national way of writing. Indeed, Longfellow remarks the most important element of this type new contrivance of literature, which is the notability and dependence of nature. In addition to his annotation about the importance of nature, Longfellow in his poem “The Song of Hiawatha”, narrates us about the Native America inestimable interpretations of the Earth, provided by a fictional singer called “Nawadaha”. Longfellow uses this mythical character to portray his naïve thoughts about the socially rejected Indians and how does the natural landscape of the world figure the unknown and untold essence of …show more content…

Longfellow depicts nature in as caliginous and eerie. At the same time, the poem narrates about how nature is perpetual and everlasting. Human life, on the other hand, is ephemeral and terminating. We need nature to subsist, but she doesn’t need us. The dark ambience bestowed in this poem, may metaphorically suggest that the present setting may signify death and the final boundary of human existence. Longfellow personifies nature in to act with the force of time to efface our carnal “legacy”. Our circle of life begins when we are born and reaches an end when we die. (3) The “traveler” has left the beach, “but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore”. As he has died, still “The tide rises the tide falls”. The world spins without us as well as

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