Comparing Tide Rises ', 'Thanatopsis And Snowbound'
The natural elements of nature as found in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's, "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls, " William Bryant's, "Thanatopsis," and John Whittier's "Snowbound," each suggest a meditative mood towards the consistency of nature's course. Through this illustration of a meditative state, each poet captures the anticipation and the silence that is reflected in the regularity of nature. Within each poem, the reflective contemplation on the consistency and regularity of nature creates the feeling of regularity and the inevitable.
Anticipation in how nature will continue and the meditative mood it accompanies, is a recurring theme that is illustrated throughout Longfellow's poem. Within the poem, the phrase that is repeated illustrates a sense of the inevitable course of nature's rhythm; " The tide rises, the tide falls" (Longfellow, 275). With the repetition ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...Whittier begins the poem describing the clouds of snow as an "ominous prophecy" of what is to come. The anticipation of a blizzard is then contrasted with the regularity of the chores the night before; "We did our nightly chores"(Whittier, 283). In Whittier's description in indulging in the regularity of the chores, the anticipation of the impending storm creates excitement. The soundlessness that Whittier describes during the storm, illustrates this sense of meditating and observing in silence the acts of nature, "No welcome sound of toil or mirth Unbound the spell..."(Whittier, 286). In the tension of what will happen with the storm, the sense of peace that comes with the silence of the snowfall allows for a meditative feel. Although Whittier creates a feeling of tension with the snowfall, his descriptions of silence allow for a feeling of peacefulness that comes with nature taking its
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