Poetry Project: By: Mallory Sterrett

Information About The Poet : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow Influenced by romanticism, and became Harvard scholar. He wrote 174 poems total. Most of his work is categorized as lyric poetry, but he also experimented in free verse poetry also. He had 6 children with his wife Frances Appleton. He was awarded with an honorary L.L.D. by Cambridge, and Oxford awarded him an honorary D.C.L.

Information about the poem: -Definition -Theme Speaker of the Poem: 3rd Person Poet Literal Information: 3 stanzas and 15 lines. Lyric Poem Rhyme Scheme Lonfellow split the poem into 3 separate stanzas to represent the passing of time. He used rhyme scheme to create a flow when reading the poem and to establish a structure. There is no end rhyme. Lyric Poem-When a poet writes an emotional, and rhyming poem. Theme-the theme of the poem The tide rises, the tide falls is that you should live life to the fullest and never give up. Longfellow also includes a lot of nature in the text.

Stanza One: The tide rises, the tide falls, -A -Repetition The tide rises, the tide falls, -A The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; -A Along the sea-sands damp and brown -B The traveller hastens toward the town, -B And the tide rises, the tide falls. -A - Metaphor -Rhyme Scheme The phrase “the tide rises, the tide falls” is a metaphor for life because its telling the reader that no mater what life will go on. REPITITION: The phrase “the tide rises, the tide falls” is repeated at the last line of each stanza

Stanza One Meaning: - Meaning - Vocabulary Term -Symbolism The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; Along the sea-sands damp and brown The traveller hastens toward the town, And the tide rises, the tide falls. Curlew: a large wading bird of the sandpiper family, with a long down-curved bill and brown streaked plumage. The author kept repeating this line because he is telling a story about how life is so short but things like the tide go on forever. This line is telling us that the traveler is in a hurry to get to town and to get away from the shore.

Stanza Two: Darkness settles on roofs and walls, - A - Rhyme Scheme Stanza Two: -Personification -Repetition Darkness settles on roofs and walls, - A But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls; -A The little waves, with their soft, white hands, -C Efface the footprints in the sands, -C And the tide rises, the tide falls. -A The sea cant call, therefore it is personification. The author put it in the poem to explain how the sea is trying to call the traveler back to shore. The waves can’t have hands like humans. The author put it there to give meaning through the phrase, and to describe the sea in a more detailed way.

Stanza Two Meaning: http://rzv93.deviantart.com/art/Black-Sea-at-night-178327982 Darkness settles on roofs and walls, But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls. This phrase is telling us that the sea was trying to call the traveler back but the traveler didn’t come back. This Phrase’s meaning is that eventually everything fades away, like in life when something tragic happens it will always fade away after time passes on just like footprints in the sand.

Stanza Three: -Repetition -Rhyme Scheme - Vocabulary Term Stanza Three: - Meaning -Repetition -Rhyme Scheme Hostler: a man employed to look after the horses of people staying at an inn. The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls-A Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;-A The day returns, but nevermore-D Returns the traveler to the shore,-D And the tide rises, the tide falls. -A The traveler never had the chance to return to the shore. This phrase once again tells us that things like the day or nature always return but life is very short.

Stamp: to bring down heavily on the ground or something on something on the ground Stanza Three Meaning: Steeds- A horse being ridden or available for riding. What I think the meaning of these phrases are that there are horses in their stalls but they are going crazy when the hostler comes in. The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls. These lines tell us that the traveler died before he was able to come back to shore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curlew http://joog07.wordpress.com/leona-lewis-footprints-in-the-sand-review/ Imagery: Stanza 1, Line 2 “the curlew calls” – This is a picture of a curlew, a bird that lives on the water, that Longfellow referred to in the first stanza. Stanza 2, Line 4 “Efface the footprints in the sand”- This line in the poem means that this will always be washed away and forgot about. You automatically imagine a picture of fottprints in the sand at the beach because that is what the line is describing.

http://genius.com/2614972/Henry-wadsworth-longfellow-the-tide-rises-the-tide-falls/The-morning-breaks-the-steeds-in-their-stalls-stamp-and-neigh-as-the-hostler-calls http://www.fotoartglamour.com/picture-speedy-tide.html Imagery: Stanza 3, Line 1 “The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls” In the poem when you read this line you think of a horse because a steed Stanza 1,2, and 3, Lines 1 (Stanza ) and Lines 5 (Stanzas 1 and 2) “The tide rises, the tide falls” – The meaning of this line si to give an example of something that just keeps going on even if something happens. You automatically think of the tide because it clearly states “the tide.”

Fugurative Meaning and Purpose: The Meaning and Purpose of this poem is to remind people that life is short and that things like the tide may go on forever, but you need to live your life to the fullest. The author tells us to keep going on and to not be broken down by these things in life, but to learn from them. He uses the tide as an example of something that goes on time after time even when there's a struggle. So live your life to the max and do not be discouraged by the little things in life.

Literal Meaning: The literal meaning of the poem is that the tide is rising and falling and that there is a traveler headed toward the town and trying to get away from the shore. The poem also gives a lot of description of what he is seeing like the steeds in their stalls and his footprints being washed away.

Sources: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/henry-wadsworth-longfellow http://thetiderises.weebly.com/ http://joog07.wordpress.com/leona-lewis-footprints-in-the-sand-review/ http://www.vocabulary.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curlew http://rzv93.deviantart.com/art/Black-Sea-at-night-178327982