The Tide Rises 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.

There are the downsides to a corrupted ocean such as ours; continuous melting of the ice caps and the pollution plaguing the water. Nevertheless, we will explore these waters and learn about all the wonders of the vast sea and find out the inexplicable beauty that lies beneath the surface.

While both Keats and Longfellow often reflect on their own unfulfilled dreams and impending deaths, the poems however contrast on their own dispositions towards death and the future. Here, Keats expresses a fear of not having enough time to accomplish all that he believes he is capable of doing, but as he recognizes the enormity of the world and his own limitations of life, he realizes that his own mortal goals are meaningless in the long run of things. On the other hand, Longfellow speaks of a regret towards his inaction for allowing time to slip away from him in his past and is at a crossroads for the ominous future that looms ahead of him. Through the use of light and dark imagery, and personification, Keats and Longfellow similarly yet also differently, reflect on their own ideas for death and the futures that lay ahead of them.

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.

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).

After I read Keats’ poem, When I Have Fears That I May Cease to be, it really made me think about all the things that I want to accomplish in my life. Before we know it our time will be here, it’s just a matter of when. This poem really made me think about the way I am living my life right now and how I should not be taking it for granted. I need to change my lifestyle if I want to accomplish all of these things. These three things that I plan on doing in my lifetime before God decides that it is my time to

What is the meaning of life? Probably one of the biggest questions in human history, yet people still have not come up with one solid answer. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow expresses his beliefs of people’s purpose in life by writing about his own experiences and how he has allowed them to shape him and his writing. Through Longfellow’s poem A Psalm of Life, the emphasis on living life to the fullest is accentuated through his beliefs of being courageous and living life for the sake of doing, rather than for the sake of death.

The poem is is clearly meant to be depressingly pessimistic; it tells of mankind being eradicated by war and how the natural world would continue without pause. Instead I find it rather comforting. I guess I enjoy the thought that even with all the horrible acts humans commit, even if we destroy ourselves entirely, the world will not cease to exist. Our death will not be the end of all things. If there is one thing to be learned from evolutionary and biological history, it’s that life always finds a way. Despite how fragile and brief it may seem, life will continue, despite all odds. It’s a deeply terrifying thought, for when everything is taken into account, does mankind really matter?

The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands” (Longfellow 2). The author found his individual freedom in this poem. From the lessons he learned he understood that he must know the day will be gone and a new one will start. He is free to be and to do as he wishes. Just as if an artist messes up on a painting, they can grab a new canvas and redo it

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

This poem represents how life is, and how life will always have obstacles. This poem was really easy to understand since I go thru this every day. This poem could relate to anyone since everyone has had a bad day before, so this affects the world today since a lot of people go thru depressions and all sorts or stuff.

“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” and “A Psalm of Life” are both poems written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). “A Psalm of Life” was published in 1838, when Wadsworth was a younger man and not long after the death of his first wife. In 1879, near the end of his life, Longfellow wrote “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls.” By that time, longfellow had witnessed the death of another wife. These two poems, although are similar and written by the same person, they are also very different.

Through the repetition of the line “time will say nothing but i told you so” and “if I could tell you I would let you know”, in the poem a sense of urgency is created. This urgency can be conveying a certain message : love while you have the time and opportunity. Time is restrictive and so much can occur in so little time. Therefore, another distinct message might be that we should do our best to live and love with the restraints of time, as opposed to trying to supercede it.

My class and I just finished reading the poem, “the tide rises, and the tide falls” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In chapter 29 of “Walk Two Moons” the poem was introduced by one of the characters, Mrs. Birchway. The poem continued within the novel, which is a perfect example of alliteration. Longfellow has demonstrated the techniques of rhyme scheme in the first stanza. The pattern aabba, and in the last stanza the pattern is aadda. The speaker uses repetition throughout the poem. In lines one, five, ten, and fifth teen Longfellow establishes a rhythmic pattern symbolizes the waves and tides of the ocean. The author uses this rhythmic pattern to create a heartbeat or pulse to keep the reader in suspense.

My life has been a crazy roller coaster with many events that have affected my life all in different ways. There have been times where my life has been at its highest peak in the world then it falls down, right into a deep valley. From the time my lovable younger sister came into my life to when my grandpa had a near death experience, I have learned many valuable lessons through the rough times as well as the more happy times. When I was a young girl, my mom had always told me the same thing over and over again. I never really thought about how a few words would have a deep effect on me in a short amount of time.