Longfellow’s poem, “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”, could easily be interpreted as a light and easy tale of a man strolling by the seaside. If we look deeper, however, the writer’s use of the tide is purposeful, and is an obvious metaphor for life and death. Like the tides, life is cyclical, and death unrelenting. The “traveler” in this poem could be any man, and he is “everyman”; a symbolic representation of humanity. The fact that he is a single traveler only further serves to illustrate the singular nature of the human condition; no matter when or how we hear the call of death, we all die alone.
The two poems use figurative language to express and explain their feelings toward death and the life cycle to their readers. Alliteration examples are seen in line 17 in “Sea Canes” and lines 3, 7, and 11 in “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”. “That has the rational radiance of stone” (Sea Cane; line 17) and “Along the sea-stands damp and brown” (The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls; line 3) are both prime examples of alliteration in the two poems. The two poets use imagery to use imagery to help their reader conceive what they are trying to explain in the poems. Imagery examples are seen in “Sea Canes” based on the words seashore, ocean plants, canes-sound, and friend’s voices.
While their one day he was admiring a windsurfer’s calisthenics. He thought that is a true poet, busy crafting a myth out of himself, achieving balance in a turbulent world. David Solway is clearly describing a beautiful day wind surfing. He uses many images making the reader feel as if they were windsurfing. They also would know what to expect from the way he describes this thrill ride if someone who read it has never windsurfed before.
"The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" by Henry Longfellow illustrates the idea that humans may not be the most significant beings on Earth through the use of poetic devices and meter. In the poem, Longfellow uses the ocean to represent and the traveler and hostler to symbolize two different aspects of humanity. The poem depicts life as a process which cannot be sped up or slowed down, and the repetition of the tide rising and falling represents the progression of life. The poem consistently expresses a serene tone, showing the relationship between nature and man as a calm one. In the first section of the poem, Longfellow introduces nature and humanity, expressing the relationship between the respective parties through the traveler's actions.
His writings are full of optimism towards freedom, sexuality, spirituality and life. Walt Whitman with his writing style breaks with traditional poetry, both in style as in content, serving as an example to future generations of poets. Whitman's style is mainly characterized through the use of free verse. Free verse is the verse with no rhyme or meter. “And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.” Much of modern poetry is written in free verse.
The rough seas have shown the Seafarer God’s working, and he realizes that his struggle and pain on his voyage will be returned with great fortune after death. The speaker claims that once man can realize Fate’s three guarantees of illness, age, or death, man can learn to accept his life (“The Seafarer” 68-71). According to the Seafarer, accepting God’s will is how one becomes content with life and destiny. In “The Wander,” the speaker looks at wyrd in a different light compared to the way the Seafarer viewed fate. To the Wanderer, fate is cruel and unfair once he remembers the men, “robbed of their riches, suddenly / Looted by death- the doom of earth, / Sent to us all by every rising / Sun” (“The Wanderer” 58-62).
There are so many good reasons to return the tidal swell, or surf back to the Long Beach coastline. There is the surfing community, tourism, revenue from parking as well as parking violations, fishing, swimming, and of course the marine habitat. The marine habitat has to be considered first above all else. In closing, one can forget all of the benefits that this project will have on the residents of Long Beach, but the fish and marine habitat cannot be forgotten. One can wait on the profits the city will receive, the fisherman can wait, the swimmers must wait.
She however has a son and is not willing to leave land to travel the seas with Ryuji. Ryuji goes through a sea of emotions, and the reader will be right along side him the whole way through the novel. In The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Mishima chooses to have all his characters speak directly to the reader. For example, the character Ryuji, (Fusako’s boyfriend) expresses his true thoughts in a pretty straight forward statement. It is almost similar to a soliloquy, but worded so as the character is talking to the reader, not themselves.
It is first here where Edna is led to believe that it is Robert who is responsible for the moods of individuality that she has found herself thrown in. Impassioned by her ventures with Robert to the ocean, Edna soon establishes a strong sense of connection between the two. As Edna falls in love with the freedom and independence the sea has to offer, she comes to associate Robert with the sea, and falls in love with his free-spirited personality as well. However, unlike the sea, Robert does not offer independence. Robert is still a man of his era, and when he returns from Mexico much later in the novel, it is clear that his own journey has not aligned with Edna’s.
As an artist, he knows that to paint the water lily and do it justice requires more than a simple depiction of the plant itself. He must also somehow capture the heart of its environment, the buzzing and teeming life that surrounds it. The intensity with which the speaker describes busy life around the water lilies and the appreciation he feels for the striking complexity of nature is expressed through the use of tone, language, imagery, diction, and figurative language in the poem. At the first reading, the reader's attention is appealed to the theme of nature. The poem seems to evoke a part of nature, since the main subject is a water lily.