LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Comparing human life to nature
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The poets use of repetition
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The traveler questions himself
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By being true to one’s self
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Detailed explanation-1: -The speaker is trying to show transcendental thought by the man and natural world which is the theme of this poem. He let readers know that life goes on through the repetition of “the tide rises, the tide falls”. “Life goes on” means literary life is eternal cycle even people are passed away.
Detailed explanation-2: -And in the third fourth line of the second stanza, “the day returns but nevermore returns the traveler to the shore, ” means that the traveler will never return again, but with time a new traveler will return, continuing the cycle.
Detailed explanation-3: -The repeating of this line means is what communicates the idea of life’s eternal life’s rise and fall. The poem’s second most notable repetition is “The twilight darkens, the curlew calls”, as the poem comes to an end “ Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls” (2, 12).
Detailed explanation-4: -Okay, so the speaker never says, “the traveler isn’t coming back because he’s dead, ” but all the images and word choice in the poem suggest that he has died.