Even though the poem “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”, and “The Cross of Snow” is written by the same author, they are kind of different. One of the most significant differences is the attitude towards death in the poem. In The Cross of Snow, the author showed his grief and regret about the fact that his wife has died. In contrast, the poem The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls explained death as a nature’s cycle, it happens to everyone and it is inevitable. In The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, the author has no apparent attitude towards death; he treated it merely as something that will eventually happen to everyone. In The Cross of Snow, the author treated death as something that wouldn’t have happened if he tried harder to save her. He regretted the fact that he failed to save her even though he tried. I think the unnamed traveler in the In The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, the author described an unnamed traveler. I think the unnamed traveler does not describe a specific person, but it describes the whole human race. I think Henry Longfellow is stating the fact that we will all die someday, and it is inevitable. In the other poem, the author described a specific person, which is his wife. I think he knows the fact that everyone will eventually die, but he still regrets the death of his wife because he thinks it’s mostly his fault.
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