Imagery In The Tide Falls

Longfellow uses imagery in The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls to create a much different scene than the one Whittier creates in Snowbound. Even though The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls arguably has a darker topic than Snowbound, Longfellow’s imagery keeps it much more lighthearted. Longfellow uses the calm words to show invoke almost an acceptance towards the traveler’s demise. Whittier, on the other hand, uses the imagery to create suspense before and during the storm.
When Longfellow starts with “The tide rises, the tide falls,” it gives the poem a slow, steady, rhythm and a lazy, laid back feel. Every time the line is repeated it brings the reader back to that rhythm, keeping the poem slow and steady while reinforcing the relaxed mood of the poem. This keeps the

Imagery can have an immense impact on the entire poem. Using different connotations in the imagery can change an entire poem. A poem about a dark topic, such as The Tide Rises, The
Tide Falls, can be made to sound more lighthearted than a poem with a milder topic such as
Snowbound.

Randall Butt
Hope is a common theme in Dickenson’s poetry. This theme appears in both Hope is the
Thing with Feathers and Success is Counted Sweetest. While Hope is the Thing with Feathers directly addresses hope, Success is Counted Sweetest does not.
In Hope is the Thing with Feathers, Dickenson says that “Hope is the thing with feathers
/ That perches in the soul / And sings the tune without the words.” She is saying that hope keeps your soul company and does not let you give up. In Success is Counted Sweetest, Dickenson says that “Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne’er succeed” meaning that the less you succeed, the more you appreciate success. This implies that those who do not succeed much rely on hope to hold them until they succeed next.
The theme of Dickenson’s poems was hope. In both of the poems she wrote of hope and