Longfello

Longfello Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a renowned poet and author, wrote “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” and “A Psalm of Life”. These poems share many similarities, but like all poems each has its own special touch too. “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” and “A Psalm of Life” have many similarities. Both poems contain death as their central theme. Longfellow alludes to footprints in sand in both poems. They both seem to express the sea, as an unyielding and merciless power. Both contain animals that symbolize something else. Finally, both seem to try to teach the reader a lesson. But of course each poem is different in its own way too. “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” seems to have a gloomier feel to it than “A Psalm of Life”. It seemed as if at the end of “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls,” Longfellow tide, life, psalm, rises, falls, both, poems, longfellow, similarities, seems, reader, each, contain, while, try, tomorrow, seemed, seem, own, one, mark, leave, express, wrote, written, way, wadsworth, unyielding, unique, trying, touch, though, theme, tell, teach