The_Tide_Rises,_The_Tide_Falls

The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” Romanticism supports the idea that feeling and intuition are more valuable than reason. This belief opposed all the main ideas of the thoughts that ruled the literary world for years before. Between 1800 and 1860, Romanticism’s concepts were well shown through the works of authors and poets such as Hawthorne, Poe, and Longfellow. “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” by Longfellow is a worthy model of Romanticism through its emphasis on nature. Because the poem set on a beach, Longfellow describes the setting as “...sea-sands damp and brown...” and “...the little waves, with their soft, white hands.” The repetition of the tide is also an important part of his description. With the contemplation of nature’s beauty as a path to spiritual and moral development, being one of the Romanticists’ beliefs, Longfellow’s traveler leaves Earth and seeks a new life. In “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls,” Longfellow places faith in inner experience and the power of imagination. tide, longfellow, describes, rises, thoughts, setting, romanticism, poem, life, falls, beach, world, while, traveler, through, returns, longfellow, inner, ideas, feel, death, beliefs, belief, in, years, worthy, works, white, way, waves, valuable, truth, travelers, towards