The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

John M. Barry, author of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America, communicates his fascination with the Mississippi River by using diction, imagery, and syntax. Barry’s word choice conveys the mechanical force of the river; his use of imagery the beauty, and his use of syntax the unpredictability. Barry’s command of rhetorical devices draws the reader in and brings the Mississippi River to life.

One way Longfellow makes his readers want to read on is using rhyming words at the end of each line in a stanza. For example, in stanza 11, lines 104-110, “ He heard to bleating of the flock/ And the twitter of birds among the trees/ And felt the breath of the morning breeze/ Blowing over the meadows brown” These few lines use peaceful, and soothing words to allow the readers to feel safe. But, then longfellow dives into a

The three poems show exile and keening, but the poems also show tactile imagery. The Wanderer show tactile imagery in line three, “wintery seas,” describes the setting is in this poem along with the tone. The Seafarer show’s tactile imagery as well, in line nine, “in icy bands, bound with frost,” the tactile imagery in this line describes the coldness of the thoughts in the lonely man’s head. In The Wife’s Lament the tactile imagery is shown in line forty seven, “That my beloved sits under a rocky cliff rimed with frost a lord dreary in spirit drenched with water in the ruined hall.” The wife in this tactile imagery is show how her husband is suffering just

John M. Barry's Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, takes us back 70 years to a society that most of us would hardly recognize.

In the first stanza the reader is introduced to the two characters in the poem. The reader is also made aware of the time of the year and day. The first stanza reveals a lot of information. It tells the reader who, when, and where. It also appeals to the sense of touch and sight when it describes the father's hands and also when he "puts his clothes on in the blueblack cold." One could almost feel the "cold" and see the "cracked hands."

His poem emphasizes living in the “present day,” not the past. He writes, “ Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act--act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o’erhead!”(21-24). He is saying to seize each day and not worry about what happened in the past or what might happen in the future. People should act in the present by living life one day at a time. Longfellow also writes, “And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sand of time;”(27-28). He is saying great people leave behind a legacy for others to follow and build on. The sands of time is a metaphor referring to the sand in an hourglass counting time. The footprints are the positive things in a person's life left to impact others. Living life each day to the fullest can allow someone to seize the best from the

Stanza two in "God 's-Acre" insinuates how sacred the name "God 's Acre" is and how the deceased are comfortable in their graves knowing that they are going toward heaven. In "Blind Bartimeus", Longfellow inserts religion throughout the whole poem. For example line four " 'It is Christ of Nazareth! '" exclaims the coming of Christ. This poem tells the tale of Christ curing the blind. Longfellow shows his faith through this poem telling about a common bible story. Longfellow 's recoil from several aspects of the contemporary religious scheme cause him to lose much of his professional hope for the future.

The article entitled “The Tide That Sinks All Boats” by Chris Matthews discusses how feelings of protectionism and nationalism are making it difficult for President Obama to pass the Trans-pacific partnership (TPP) through Congress. The implication in this article is that the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump during this presidential election stirred these feelings amongst Americans. Thus, members of Congress fear that passing the free trade agreement will make them a “traitor to the American Worker”. The article also mentions how free trade agreements often take the brunt of people’s fears regarding global trade and its impact on domestic job security referencing NAFTA (Matthews, 2016).

“Ink smeared like bird prints in snow” is the first simile that appears in the poem and serves multiple purposes. The most obvious one is the creation of imagery, where it compares the black words the persona writes on paper to the bird’s foot prints that are left behind when a bird walks on snow. The imagery alludes that the persona will leave a “footprint” in the form of a note that people can use to trace her path but she will never be there anymore. From line thirty-six to forty, the poet creates another imagery of a sparrow (a tiny and a delicate bird) flying in windy snowing weather. The sparrow is dizzied and sullied by the violent wind; it encounters a lot of difficulties and fear. In this imagery, the persona compares herself with the delicate bird. She compares the challenges that the sparrow goes through to the suffering she encounters relating to her parents.

Throughout the passage, the writing appeals to the senses of touch and hearing. As read in the text, “I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels,/ They have clear’d the beams away, they tenderly lift me forth” (lines 29-30). Whitman uses the senses touch and hearing to help the reader feel what is happening in the passage.

After reading the book Against The Tide by Cornelia Dean I think that the national policy for governing developing coastlines should be dependent on an areas geologic features. In order to do this, government officials would have to evaluate and create detailed reports to battle erosion in specific areas rather than simply proposing a project that worked in a different place. In terms of development, I think that if a project is going to be undertaken over a large area coastal geologists and engineers should make small-scale models of the region containing the planned infrastructure. After a few years, the isolated small scale should be observed for long-term effects so that they are known before construction begins. Additionally, if the

Not many fictional stories have much success addressing real world problems like global warming and pushing animals to extinction. People often hear Fiction an assume that the story will be one of a completely made up story line that has little to no truth in it and lacks the necessary details of a nonfiction story. Even though the story line is not based on real events it does make one more aware of the things going on around us.When reading you must look at the fragile and dangerous ecosystem that the Sundrabans offer. The land constantly is changing because of tides which puts the people at risk of loosing there homes at all times. If that struggle is not scary enough the people of the Sundrabans have to fear the predators who roam the waters and the land. Its also an equal relationship with humans as well due to there over fishing of areas and damming of the fresh water streams. At this point you think it could not get any worse but it does because they have severe weather which comes through and can wipe out whole villages and kill hundreds of thousands of people. The Hungry Tide by Amitav Gosh addresses the

In the third stanza a box is introduced. It can be assumed that this box is a coffin. The box is being lifted into the ground and the "Boots of Lead" "creaking" across the poets soul symbolize the mourners walking on the fresh grave. The "tolling" of space mimics the church bell that is introduced in the following stanza.

By repeating “O” throughout the elegy, it creates a sense of rhythm throughout the free verse without creating a constant structure. The repetition of “O” emphasizes the importance of the word, and enacts Whitman’s misery on death. The sound “O” also resembles the sound of wails from grief, correlating to Whitman’s first notion of death, questioning his relationship with it. Because it is a pastoral elegy, Whitman incorporates a thematic imagery of death to address his own grief. One important element he uses is the image of the coffin. It is decorated with “Blossoms and branches green” (Whitman 47), which

It was “A Swelling of the Ground--” and “ The roof was barely visible—“. The turning point of the poem was a flashback, when she says, “ Since then—‘tis Centuries—and yet/Feels shorter than the Day/I first surmised the Horses’ Heads/Were toward Eternity—“(21-24). This flashback lets the reader know that she is looking back on that day almost as if she is sad. Centuries have passed, yet that day seems longer than any time that has passed.