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Posted by AMR ABDEL AZIZ ELSAYED on October 13, 19103 at 07:10:18:
In Reply to: Re: ysis posted by nate on June 01, 19102 at 15:56:01:
: this is what i think the poem is about and this is my papper
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: The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
: The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls is about nature and mankind. It says although mankind may not be around forever, nature will be. Although man may leave his footprint in the world or change it somehow, nature will change it back. Mankind is temporary and nature is forever.
: The first, second and third stanzas are talking about nature and what it does everyday. From the birds calling, the sun setting and the sand getting brown and cold. All of those symbolize the world as it exists not only today but as it existed thousands of years ago. The traveler symbolizes all of mankind; we leave footprints in the sand or make small changes to the world as we live our lives.
: “Darkness settles on roofs and walls,” means man has built places to live and work in order to survive. In the rest of the verse it talks about what man has built and how nature erases it with “soft, white hands.” It erases things gradually over time. The tide rises and the tide falls, the world goes on.
: “The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls” symbolizes that each day mankind is up and ready to do what he needs to survive. It’s a new day. Man is anxious to go about his daily routine. “But never more returns the traveler to the shore.” Means whatever happened yesterday is in the past and is being wiped away. Whatever happens today will someday be erased.
: Mankind is powerful, but nature is more so. Nature is always around trying to erase mankind’s footsteps. “The tide rises, the tide falls.” And nature goes on with or without mankind