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THE TIDE RISES, THE TIDE FALLS
PowerPoint by: Adam Insley
Poem by: Walt Whitman 1807-1882
Date: 10-26-15
Class: English-5th period
STRUCTURERHYME SCHEME
• Longfellow wrote this poem with 15 lines and 3 stanzas.
• It is a ballad because it tells a story.
• The organization of the poem is consistent through all three stanzas.
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THE SPEAKER• The speaker in the poem is a
traveler and he is on a shore
• He then goes into a town. Then overnight his footprints are washed away by the tide.
• When it becomes morning the traveler returns to the shore.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION• Some of Longfellow’s poems had figurative
meaning about death.
• Longfellow’s wife’s death inspired the making of this poem.
• He lived from 1807-1882.
• He was an American poet and educator.
• He was born in Portland, Maine.
• He was a traveler and romantic which can explain why he dedicated this poem to his wife.
IMAGERY
• An example of imagery in “the tide rises, the tide falls” is…
“The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands…”
IMAGERY
• Another example of imagery in this poem is…
• “Darkness settles on roofs and walls,”
• In this imagery it is trying to get you to picture the sky going dark and it becoming nighttime.
IMAGERY
• There is yet another example of imagery in this poem.
• “The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;”
• In this line of imagery Longfellow describes in depth it turning night and a curlew (type of bird) calling and making noises.
IMAGERY
• Another example of imagery
• “The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh,”
POETIC/LITERARY TERMSThere is a lot of personification in this poem as well.
• “The little waves, with their soft, white hands”
• This line is personifying waves with soft, white hands.
• “But the sea, the sea in darkness calls;”
• This line is personifying the darkness calling.
• “Darkness settles on roofs and walls,”• This line is personifying darkness settling
on roofs and walls which can not happen.
Personification: To give a non living object living/human characteristics.
POETIC/LITERARY TERMS
Alliteration“The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh,”
“the steeds in their stalls stamp…”
Alliteration: when the same letter or sound is repeated in a phrase of a poem
REPETITION
• “And the tide rises, the tide falls.”
• “The tide rises, the tide falls,”• These two lines are repeated a total of four times
throughout the poem.
• Repetition: the repeating of a phrase in a poem several times.
LITERAL MEANING
• The literal meaning of this poem is about a traveler
• Also that the footprints that he leaves behind are washed away by the tide.
• The traveler goes to town and it starts to become dark.
• The traveler then returns back to the shore.
FIGURATIVE MEANING• Since Longfellow experienced a lot of death in
his life time (wife died; went into suicidal depression)
• The poem is about the circle of life
• The beach is your midlife and early life
• The town is the end of your life
• The waves effacing the footprints is representing where you’ve been and your accomplishments
• The tide is representing time and how your accomplishments over time will disappear.
AUTHOR’S PURPOSE
• The author’s purpose was to express his feelings about death and life.
• Also to show his grief after his wife had died.
• As well as educating us with a lesson about life going in a full circle
THEME
• The theme is about the circle of life and that he keeps repeating “the tide rises, the tide falls”
• He says the tide rises but the tide also falls in other words it “dies”
• So the theme is life goes around and there will be ups and downs.
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raphy-and-hiawatha-poem/
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