Longfellow's Symbolism In The Tide Rises, Tide Falls

As human beings we should live everyday like it’s our last day on earth. Being that it is natural for us to live and perish, while nature will remain the same. Hypothetically speaking, the ocean display and portray the most powerful forces on earth. This proposal is represented in the poem “The Tide Rises, Tide Falls” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In the poem the ocean is a symbol for life. In reality, the ocean contains up and down movements that cannot be stopped. This relates to humans living life and dying, as the pattern continuously repeats itself. In other words, Life is a cycle, it will keep recurring and the time will not wait on anybody no matter what happens.
From an early age Henry Wadsworth-Longfellow was very smart, experienced
"Traveling," he wrote, "is not always a cure for sadness." As so often happened in Longfellow's life, fate took a hand (Lukes). The tide continues to fall until he meets the Appleton family. Longfellow enjoyed the entire Appleton family, and when he was invited to join them in a week of travel, he accepted gratefully (Lukes). He then marries Fanny his second wife and created a family. With two sons already born, his wife wanted a little girl. For that, she later had another child which luckily was a baby girl (Fanny). Unfortunately, the tide falls again when he learns that his child is critically ill. The baby's improvement did not last. Instead, her condition grew worse. In anguish and despair, Longfellow wrote: "A day of agony; the physicians have no longer any hope; [but] I cannot yet abandon it." At half-past four in the afternoon of the next day, Baby Fanny died
He truly loved his wives for eternity. “I never looked at her without a thrill of pleasure--she never came into a room where I was without my heart beating quicker, nor went out without my feeling that something of the light went with her. I loved her so entirely, and I know she was very happy ... My heart aches and bleeds sorely for the poor children (Lukes).” This shows the sorrow of the intelligent man. He’s mentality destroyed with all the tragedies that he has continuously endured over the years. Despite of Longfellow’s repeated personal tragedies, he still managed to write poetry basically do what he love, in the mist of his love ones deaths. This relates back to the poem’s theme as a person have to learn to accept death as it is natural and happen to