Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow shows romanticism in all parts of his literature. He shows Individualism in his poem, "The Tide Rises and the Tide Falls" because he only mentions one traveler and the entire tone of the poem almost feels lonely to me. When he says "The traveler hastens towards the town" it shows that he was alone and far away from the town and the people, creating that lonely mood. In the same way, this poem could be used to show optimism because with the way that it repeats the sentence, "Efface the footprints in the sand, And the tide rises and the tide falls," it could be taken to show that no matter what changes you go through, some things are always constant. It shows that no matter what happens, you can always rely on that. It shows that their will always be a new day and a new start. Also it uses nature as a symbol. It uses the consistency of the tide to show the consistency of things in your life. Intuition is used because it alludes to the fact that the tide will rise later and then it will fall. It predicts the movement of the tide.