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Imagery In The Tide Falls And Whittier
During the literary period known as the New England Renaissance, there were several poets who became very popular. They were called The Fireside Poets because they used themes that appealed to a wide audience and families would spend time in the evenings reading their poetry by the fireside. Fireside poets Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier both used imagery in their poetry to help the reader picture scenes of nature with language that gives the elements of nature almost human-like qualities. For Longfellow the ocean comes alive in his poem The Tide Rises,
The Tide Falls and for Whittier, he uses images of a winter storm in his poem
Snowbound.
In both poems, the authors use imagery to inspire vivid images of the ocean in
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Death is a prevalent theme in the writings of Emily Dickinson. Two works which clearly convey this theme are Because I could not stop for Death— and A Coffin — is a small Domain.
In the poem Because I could not stop for Death—, Dickinson introduces us to
Death who is like a kindly gentleman who stops in a carriage to give a person a ride.
The ride with Death is comfortable and slow, “We slowly drove—He knew no haste, And
I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility—“. As the ride continues they pass a school yard where children play and they pass a field of grain with the setting sun. Finally they arrive at a house that sounds like it is most likely a grave, “We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground— The Roof was scarcely visible—
The Cornice—in the Ground—“. In the end the person is in an afterlife that is like an eternity that seems shorter that a day. Another of Dickinson’s poems that deals with the theme of death is A Coffin — is a small Domain. Rather than personifying death,

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