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    I need help to anaylsis this poem?

    Poem By; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882
    The sound of the sea
    The sea awoke at midnight from it's sleep,
    And round the pebbly beaches far and wide
    I heard the first wave of the rising tide
    Rush onward with uninterrupted sweep;
    A voice out of the silence of the deep,
    A sound mysteriously multiplied
    As of a cataract from the mountain's side,

    Or roar of winds upon awooded steep. So comes to us at times,from the unknown And inaccessible solitudes of being,
    The rushing of the sea -tides of the soul;
    And inspirations, that we deem our own,
    Are some divine forshadowing and forseeing of things beyon our reason or control

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    Sounds like something drippy written by someone who sat on a beach all day drinking himself into a stupor.....babbling about the waves and the wind.

    That's my careful and thoughtful anaylsis

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    In this poem Longfellow describes the sound of the sea as the waves lap against the shore and the tide rises. He compares the rush of the tide to rushes of inspiration people experience sometimes. He also suggests that those inspirations might be a way of divine "foreshadowing and foreseeing" as opposed to the regularity with which the tide rises. Just like the tide of the sea, the tide of the soul is beyond our control as well.

    The obvious imagery in this poem describes the sea and the waves of the tide. However, if you read this poem carefully out loud, not only do the actual words describe the sea and the waves, but the rhythm of the poem go along with this imagery very well.
    Notice also that the word "cataract" is not meant in the sense of the eye disorder but means high or very large waterfall.

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    In this poem Longfellow describes the sound of the sea as the waves lap against the shore and the tide rises. He compares the rush of the tide to rushes of inspiration people experience sometimes. He also suggests that those inspirations might be a way of divine "foreshadowing and foreseeing" as opposed to the regularity with which the tide rises. Just like the tide of the sea, the tide of the soul is beyond our control as well.

    The obvious imagery in this poem describes the sea and the waves of the tide. However, if you read this poem carefully out loud, not only do the actual words describe the sea and the waves, but the rhythm of the poem go along with this imagery very well.

    Notice also that the word "cataract" is not meant in the sense of the eye disorder but means high or very large waterfall.

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    In this poem Longfellow describes the sound of the sea as the waves lap against the shore and the tide rises. He compares the rush of the tide to rushes of inspiration people experience sometimes. He also suggests that those inspirations might be a way of divine "foreshadowing and foreseeing" as opposed to the regularity with which the tide rises. Just like the tide of the sea, the tide of the soul is beyond our control as well.

    The obvious imagery in this poem describes the sea and the waves of the tide. However, if you read this poem carefully out loud, not only do the actual words describe the sea and the waves, but the rhythm of the poem go along with this imagery very well.
    Notice also that the word "cataract" is not meant in the sense of the eye disorder but means high or very large waterfall.

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    In this poem Longfellow describes the sound of the sea as the waves lap against the shore and the tide rises. He compares the rush of the tide to rushes of inspiration people experience sometimes. He also suggests that those inspirations might be a way of divine "foreshadowing and foreseeing" as opposed to the regularity with which the tide rises. Just like the tide of the sea, the tide of the soul is beyond our control as well.

    The obvious imagery in this poem describes the sea and the waves of the tide. However, if you read this poem carefully out loud, not only do the actual words describe the sea and the waves, but the rhythm of the poem go along with this imagery very well.
    Notice also that the word "cataract" is not meant in the sense of the eye disorder but means high or very large waterfall.


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