ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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.”

Detailed explanation-2: - Personification But the sea, the sea in darkness calls; Personification The little waves, with their soft, white hands.

Detailed explanation-3: -"The little waves, with their soft, white hands efface the footprints in the sands” could mean that we could be forgotten over time when we’re gone or that all the actions that we’ve done will disappear over time.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The death of the traveler, the rising and falling of the tides-these are just metaphors for death and rebirth more generally.