1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2. Biography 1807- 1882 Graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825. Worked at Harvard University for 18 years. Lyric poet, translator, American history, Didacticism and free verse. Spent many years in Europe.

3. The Arsenal at Springfield

4. Simile “ From floor to ceiling. Like a huge organ.” Gives us the setting. Builds his ideas off of this sentence. Contradictory statement.

5. The Arsenal at Springfield cont. Rhyme “..From floor to ceiling, …rise the burnished arms; … pipes no anthem pealing … villages with strange alarms.” Sound like quality and helps give the reader picture the scene.

6. The Arsenal at Springfield cont. Allusion “ dismal Miserere” “the curse of Cain” “ Through Cimbric forest roars” “Distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong” “ Aztec priests upon their teocallis” “ Rings the Saxon hammer.” Builds off his main statement.

7. The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

8. Repetition “ And the tide rises, the tide falls.” Gives the feeling the sense of a movement. Personification “ The little waves, with their soft, white hands,” Imaginative effect on the poem.

9. The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls cont. Rhyme “tide falls curlew calls; and brown the town tide falls.” The sense of the tide.

10. The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls cont. Alliteration “ The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp” Draws the readers attention to the line. Metaphor Tide – life The tide never ends just like life.

11. The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls cont. Theme Cycle of life. The world keeps moving with or without us.

12. Bibliography http://www.hwlongfellow.org/life_overview.shtml http://www.nps.gov/spar/historyculture/arsenal-at- springfield.htm http://www.nps.gov/spar/historyculture/arsenal-at- springfield.htm http://fr.slideshare.net/linaizzie/the-tide-rises-the- tide-falls-15579829 http://fr.slideshare.net/linaizzie/the-tide-rises-the- tide-falls-15579829 http://avoiceoutofthesilence.blogspot.fr/2011/07/tide -rises-tide-falls.html image http://avoiceoutofthesilence.blogspot.fr/2011/07/tide -rises-tide-falls.html http://www.newenglandtravelplanner.com/literature/a rsenal_poem.html image http://www.newenglandtravelplanner.com/literature/a rsenal_poem.html