Comparing Poem

In The Tide Rises The Tide Falls, it mainly focuses on how human is so insignificant compare to nature that unlike nature which goes in cycle, human don’t. In the poem, it describes how a man’s trace on the beach is easily washed away in a night that the next day it seems as if the man has never walk on the beach. In my opinion, it illustrated that human is so insignificant that our trace on this earth can easily be washed away and vanished. However, on the contrary, in the poem The Cross of Snow, it conveys a feeling that one can never be washed away although the physical body may long be perished. In the Cross of Snow, the poet described how he remembers his wife’s death and his grief is like a big cross on a snowy mountain. Although his wife has passed away for 18 years and her body now longer leaves any trace on the earth, his memory of her still exist deep inside his heart. This is different from The Tide Rises and The tide falls although physically human’s trace disappear as time flies, memories of us will forever lies in people’s heart and can never be washed away.