The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls Analysis

Alright folks, let's talk some form and meter. "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" is a rondeau (we'll get to that in just a second here) that has no fixed meter for every, single line of the poem. Ta...

One thing we can say for sure is that the speaker of the "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" has got a vivid imagination, he hears the sounds of the ocean, and decides that the ocean is talking. He se...

"The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" is a very dark poem, literally and thematically. The poem takes place at twilight, near the seashore. Nearby is a town, where a traveler is heading at the end of th...

"The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" is a sad and somber poem about the inevitability of death. The first two stanzas are all about the falling of the tide, darkness and twilight descending, and the de...

"The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" is a poem about cycles. While you might think just based on the title that's a poem about the motions of the tides, it's about more than that. It's about the circle...

There are a lot of things you could say about Longfellow's poetry, but one thing for certain is that, in his later years, he loved to talk about the ocean. By ocean, we don't just mean "ocean," but...

There was a reason Longfellow was so darn popular in his day. Here's a secret: it wasn't because he wrote complicated, convoluted, head-scratchers for poems. Nope, Longfellow always kept his poems...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow read Italian fluently, so fluently that he actually translated Dante. In fact, he was the first American translator of this famous Italian poet. (Source.)Longfellow was a...

We've got a traveler walking along the sand who dies, a few references to the rising and the falling of the tides, some horses, a hostler, and… well, that's about it. It doesn't get more un-sexua...