The_Tide_Rises,_The_Tide_Falls

The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The poem “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a very well written poem. Longfellow is known to be one of the best authors of all time; but this poem has its good points and it’s bad points. Some of the good points are the very even rhythms he uses, also the way he describes the travelers “life”. But in my opinion this poem also has some fairly large flaws. Some of the flaws are the fact that at the end of the poem Longfellow jumps to talking about horses, also he uses so words that no one knows what they are. Longfellow does a very good job of keeping the rhythm in this poem. In each line he makes it rhyme with the last. By doing this he makes the poem flow very nicely and makes it sound very nice. I think that is part of what makes this poem. Another thing that is very good about this poem is the way Longfellow relates the “travelers” “life” to the tide. This makes it a very metaphorical poem and by doing this he puts many underlying meanings to poem, tide, rises, falls, about, very, longfellow, one, makes, good, written, wadsworth, time, talking, points, horses, flaws, because, words, way, travelers, traveler, topic, today, think, things, thing, people, opinion, life, last, kind, jumps, henry, fact, even, doing