Question

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls summary

Answer 1

The traveler hastens toward the town, And the tide rises, the tide falls. In the speaker's scene, there's a traveler walking along the shore ("sea-sands"), which happens to be damp and brown (yeah, that makes sense). He's hurrying towards a nearby town.

Answer 2

H.W Longfellow- The American poet and educator, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), was from Portland, Maine.  His life had witnessed uneventful death of his two wives, which left him heartbroken. Longfellow’s name can be found amongst the five Fireside Poets. The gentle poet of 19th century became the first American writer to translate Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Voices of Night (1839) and Ballads and Other Poems (1841) were the first two major poetry collections of Longfellow. His lyric verses had an impressive musical quality along with the theme of different mythological stories and legends looming in it. He died after enduring long days of pain from peritonitis on March 24, 1882.

Setting of The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls- 

This poem belongs to Longfellow’s final collection of poetry, “Ultima Thule”. The literal setting of the poem is a typical seashore. But the figurative one being approaching death, the poem holds the reader in its grip until the end. It was written in 1879, three years before the poet’s own death. Hence, a connection can be derived in this sense too.

Poetic Devices in The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls-

Anaphora: “And the tide rises, the tide falls”, “…the sea, the sea…”