For the Romantic in you...or not
Please remember that you have two choices for this blog:
(1) Analyze the Longfellow poem given in class ("The Cross of Snow" or "The Tide Rises the Tide Falls"). Your interpretation should have a thesis and should be backed up with the techniques used in class on Wednesday.
(2) Compose your own Romantic poem using Romantic subject matter and form.
Please post by 10 pm Thursday night.
(1) Analyze the Longfellow poem given in class ("The Cross of Snow" or "The Tide Rises the Tide Falls"). Your interpretation should have a thesis and should be backed up with the techniques used in class on Wednesday.
(2) Compose your own Romantic poem using Romantic subject matter and form.
Please post by 10 pm Thursday night.
posted by Kristin L at 5:01 PM
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The tide rises and the tide falls. Each day a person is able to start over and live their life, while facing the facts. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow uses a rhyme scheme that shows the barriers. Call, fall, wall, and stall, they all symbolize a barrier that a person must break through in order to achieve his or her goals. Some of the other words that rhyme, hands and sands are more hopeful. A person can use their hands to further able them to strive, or help others. Sand is walked on many times but the ocean is able to “…efface the footprints in the sands.” There will always be a new slate for one to start over. The title, “The Tide Rises and the Tide Falls,” is emphasized through out the poem. An athlete may be famous but will soon be forgotten. As the tide rises, the athlete rises to the top. As the tide falls, the water washes away the memory of the once-famous athlete. The traveler represents the average person. They are reluctant to leave the place that makes them feel comfortable. They have to go home for the night and face reality of their daily life. The next day is new and the slate is clean, they come back to the place they feel comfortable.
I think that in the poem "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls" by Henry Longfellow the significence of the repeated line "the tide rises, the tide falls" is that each day some of the same things will always happen. The sun will always rise, and the tide will always rise and fall. People and our agendas will always change but some things will always be the same. In the poem Longfellow says "but nevermore returns the traveler to the shore." The traveler is one of the changing things. I believe that the traveler died on his journey however it could be that the traveler is just continuing on his journey. Longfellow leaves this up for interperatation. That sea will always be there for people to observe but will the traveler?
In the poem “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, there is a lot of repetition. The author repeats the line, “The Tide Rises, The Tide Fall” four different times. This may be because he wants to get a point across. Since the author repeats this line so much, it really makes the reader think about what it means. In this poem, tide is a metaphor for life. This line is saying that sometimes in life, a person may be struggling a lot, and really down in the dumps. Other times in life, everything may be going great. The author writes “Darkness settles on roofs and walls / But the sea, the sea in darkness calls”. Even when life is going horrible and “darkness settles”, there is always a little bit of hope. As the poem says, “the sea in darkness calls”. This poem also had a rhyme scheme. The author rhymes falls, calls, walls, and stalls. He also might have done this to emphasize the main rhyme of the poem.
The waves crash and fall
Slowly unfolding out of their tight ball
It’s hard to be tightly wound all of the time
Going through the motions without reason or rhyme
The sand is safely engulfing your feet
Making you relax and slowing your heart beat
The sun wraps its rays closely on your shoulders
Just to make sure your insecure body doesn’t grow colder
The moon falls into place
And like every ending day the stars follow at the same pace
I chose to write a Romatice poem, so here is my best shot:
Fiery Fury
Fire melts away my serenity,
Until there is nothing left.
I have no peace, not when he is there,
I feel my calm slip away.
Frustration fills me from top to bottom,
My fury fed by the fire sends me boiling over.
I have not patience,
Mot since be burned it all away.
His fire caught me,
And now it consumes me.
I once had control,
But he cured me of that.
I am drowning is his fire,
As it burns my peace away.
Frustration will fill me,
Until he is gone,
Or until the fire completely consumes me.
I am sorry I misspelled not, on my previous blog it says "mot" but I meant "not".
In the poem "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls" by Henry Longfellow, the main theme of the poem is that with every day comes another day and a new beginning. No matter what happened one day, the next day you start out with a clean slat. Mr. Longfellow tried to get across this message by comparing it to the sand on the sea. During the day the sand has footprints in it. But the tides rise and fall during the night which gets rid of the footprints, and the next morning the beach is nice and smooth. Longfellow uses repitiion in his poem when he repeats several times "the tide rised, the tide falls". His message when doing this is that with every day, follows another.
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I agree with Emily about the poem. She made a good point about life and being able to start your life over even though you may have had a bumpy ride. A quote that stuck out to me was "the tide rises, the tide falls". He says this many times, and is an expression that he wanted to get across. This goes along with the structure of the poem and emphasizing words. The traveler also stuck in my mind. He supported my idea of starting a new life. This is because he leaves and comes back again, maybe to start over.
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