Appreciation of the Poem "Tide Rise and Fall"
Longfellow's poems are not only like writing landscape poems, but also like writing landscape poems. To say that it is not a landscape poem, it does describe the seaside scenery-the beach at dusk, the ebb and flow of tides, the birds singing in Ma Si, the pedestrians on the road, the houses shrouded in darkness, and even the soft white waves erase people's footprints on the beach. Let's say it's a landscape poem, but there are some other things in it, especially the phrase "travelers hurried into the city" and later said that they "disappeared from the scene", which seems to contain some philosophies and sentiments of life. Of course, this does not mean that landscape poetry should be purely landscape writing, and "emotion" and "scenery", "reason" and "scenery" are often blended with each other; It is different from ordinary landscape poems, and more is the connotation of "reason". The writing time of this poem is 1880. At this time, the author is 73 years old and has reached the twilight of his life. Therefore, it can be said that this poem is the dusk of a dying old man's day-at dusk, facing the magnificent sea with ebb and flow, I saw someone rushing along the beach, expressing feelings such as "Life between heaven and earth is like a passer-by" ("Nineteen Ancient Poems") or "Life is like a lifetime, and elections are like dust" (Lao Laizi). The scenery is the image of this meaning, so it might as well be called philosophical imagery poetry.