ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: - Personification But the sea, the sea in darkness calls; Personification The little waves, with their soft, white hands.

Detailed explanation-2: -Longfellow makes use of several literary devices in ‘The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls’. These include but are not limited to personification, alliteration, sibilance, and metaphor.

Detailed explanation-3: -“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” tells the tale of a “traveller” who arrives at a shore, hurries to a nearby town, and never returns the way they came. The poem can be read as an extended metaphor for the brevity of human life and the mystery of death-something the poem presents as unknowable, inevitable, and final.

Detailed explanation-4: -Personification is used as the only type of figurative language in sentences like, “The morning breaks, ” “The day returns, ” and “The little soft waves with they’re soft white hands.” It shows that the day is beginning and it helps to describe the waves.

Detailed explanation-5: -Imagery: Imagery is used to make readers perceive things involving their five senses. For example, “The tide rises, the tide falls”, “The little waves, with their soft, white hands” and “Efface the footprints in the sands.”