Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems
“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”
What word personify the sea and the waves in the second stanza? Do these images create a disturbing effect or a gentle, comfortable feeling? Explain
Darkness settles on roofs and walls, But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls.