Tide Rises, Tide Falls

“Tide Rises, Tide Falls” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a quote saying, “music is the universal language of mankind- poetry their universal pastime and delight”. This quote has a great significance in many of his poems. This quote proves that music and poetry tie in with each other including this poem being analyzed. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow also became the first American poet to reach a wide audience. Henry also created a national interest in poetry throughout all of the people. In this poem, he has many different outlooks on life including good and bad. Wadsworth’s poem, “Tide Rides, Tide Falls”, has examples of imagery, personification, and symbolism because it left a lasting impression on the reader. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow first uses imagery in this poem often. A quote that can be used to support this is: “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls. The twilight darkens, the curlew calls.” After most readers who have read this, they could try to imagine this scene happening in the poem. It could be a visual thought or they can picture themselves there. This quote exemplifies shows that the author wants us to use our mind and imagination to picture ourselves there. This also exemplifies the theme because it shows a very good time in his life or

A quote that can be used to support this is: “The little waves, with their soft, white hands.” Henry wants to get the message across by using personification. He also wants to use non-human objects and he wants to give them humanlike characteristics. He might have wanted to do this to catch the readers’ attention or see it in a different point of view. Henry wants to describe how the waves represent pain or death. It shows that the waves mentioned in the quote erase your footprints or the good things you did in life. It could make readers have a different outlook on it or enjoy different examples of personification placed in this