The Tide Rises Tide Falls Analysis

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

There are many poets that have been writing some of the most amazing poems in the world for years upon years. Poetry is a great way to write about some of the most meaningful things in one’s life, without directly having to state what you’re trying to say some of the times. A lot of poets write about events within their lives as well as things in everyday life in the lives of everyone in the world. The poems “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) and “Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) both use great diction and varying tone in their poems to portray their individual perspectives about life.

Repetition at the end of each stanza is effectively used to reinforce the message to fight back against death. The son implores his father to hang on any way he can and begs him to use joy or tears or anger to remain in this life. Other men, be they wise or frivolous, serious or

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.

Two poems that can be compared to each other are “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” and “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.” These poems both seem to share the theme of life coming to a close. In the poem “To the Virgins”, there is a line that reads “The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, the higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he’s to setting”; this creates an image of a soul ascending to heaven. “Do Not Go Gentle” conveys a similar image in the fourth stanza; as the souls go to heaven, they are welcomed by the sun’s rays. However, the poems also seem to share different meanings. The overall message of “To the Virgins” is that people should make the most of life because it will not last long. This is evidenced

The two poems correspond to one another through similar themes and details covered. Both the writers deal with the regrets that they will have in their lives with a negative tone. Their aspiration to continue to write is experienced by them both although by Keats in a higher amount. Keats expresses this through lines 1-12 of his poem and Longfellow by his goal “to build/Some tower of song with lofty parapet” (2-3), because he too is a writer. The two poem’s structure included a rhyming scheme in order to point out important phrases and lines in the poems, such as the ending couplet in Keats’ poem.

Lucinda’s name represents a person who seems to have been extraordinary, unique, and vibrant in life. Unlike George, she lived with purpose and showed ambition. Instead of running away from hardships, Lucinda experienced every emotion in life from the good times to the bad times. This resulted in an amazingly full life with no regrets. Lucinda died at the age of 96, completely satisfied with how well her life went. While alive, she experienced love and sorrow, but also, had an ambitious outlook that allowed her to fulfill her purpose and achieve her goals. At the end of the poem, Lucinda gave these words of wisdom: “Life is too strong for you--/It takes life to love Life.” Her advice is to live life to the fullest even if life begins to become challenging. Lucinda speaks directly to the reader, and challenges the reader to live life to the fullest. “Shouting” and “singing”, “working” and “raising” twelve children are examples of ways she behaved with vibrancy and energy. This carpe diem attitude encourages us to lose the anger, discontentment, sorrow, and weariness that may cause us to live unhappily.

Also, this poem has a unique format than most other poems. This poem’s structure incorporates six stanzas with an assorted refrain at the end of every pair of stanzas. On the other hand, “Life is Fine” has a very vigorous message that notifies the reader that life is worth living. In the poem, the man’s purpose to live is his “baby”. This can be seen in the last stanza where it says, “I'll be dogged, sweet baby, if you gonna see me die.” Essentially this means that he won’t die, because he doesn’t want his loved one to see him die. Generally speaking, this message compels the reader to live there live their life, deliberating that everyone has a purpose to live, no matter what hardships life hands

The mood and tone of the poem is encouraging and persuasive, but the words he uses in the poem are not always encouraging and persuasive. He uses words like “grave”, “grieved”, and “dying” to compare to death, in which he is encouraging his father to fight.

Early on in the poem Longfellow establishes his style through the use of personification. To illustrate, when the speaker is describing a British owned warship docked on the Charlestown shore awaiting a battle in the revolutionary war he/she tells the reader, “each mast and spar/across the moon like a prison bar...” (Lines 20-21). Fitting the definition of a simile the ships mast and spar are compared to a prison bar using the word like. Comparing components of the British war ships to a prison reminds the reader that a war for the american colonist is inescapable just like prison is inescapable for an inmate. Therefore, the use of stylistic techniques such as similes are exemplified through longfellows description of the british war ships.

In the poem, Longfellow depicts the tide in nature as the rise and fall cycle of life, example, life and death. One case for this example is the constant repeated sentence “and the tide rises, the tide falls”. This

The poem explores the theme of death, when it speaks of the "good night" it is referring to death and how it is associated with darkness and grief. The poem also explores the theme of aging. The speaker encourages the elderly to "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" (3), suggesting that they should fight and should refuse to go "gentle" or easily into the "night" of death. Another important theme that is touched upon by the poem is grief. The speaker expresses his grief as he begs his father to stay alive.

In the movie The Prince of Tides, the kind of Psychotherapy being portrayed is Psychodynamic. Psychodynamic therapy is a deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition, views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences and seek to enhance self-insight. The therapist in the movie uses the patients brother to find out the root of the patients disturbing Psychodynamic behavior. By doing so she discovers the darkness of the family’s history.

Henry Longfellow and John Whitter both used symbolism to juristically make their writing more appealing and full of elements. For Longfellow it was “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”..In the poem, “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”, the theme to me is surrounded around the fact of life goes on. The rise and fall of the tides in the ocean represent the way life is a roller-coaster and it goes up and down and never slows down. An example to relate to the theme is when Longfellow says “The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveller to the shore, and the tide rises, the tide falls.” While he claims this it supports the fact that this is about life changing, it supports it because once the day comes to an end, and the “traveller” (person living life) is at rest from a long day, the tide rises and falls. In other ways, life still goes on. Now as for John Whitter’s poem, Snowbound, I believe the theme for this piece of literature is overcoming the odds. The setting I thought of was in a little cabin that was trying its best to stand tall through a harsh winter storm. The heat in doors was limited and the family inside was just trying to make it through what seemed like a never-ending storm. In the poem one line that caught my eye about them overcoming the odds was “We watched the first red blaze appear, Heard the sharp crackle, caught the gleam, On whitewashed wall and sagging beam,”. While he claims this is supports the fact that this is about how regardless of the situation, no