Read the stanza from “the tide rises, the tide falls” by henry wadsworth longfellow. darkness settles on roofs and walls, but the sea, the sea in the darkness calls: the little waves, with their soft, white hands, efface the footprints in the sands, and the tide rises, the tide falls. what mood does this stanza evoke in the reader?

A peaceful sense of completion.

Explanation:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls" is a poem of a serene and calm continual cycle of life and death and rebirth. The poet talks of the inevitability of a man's life and death, which has no affect on the surroundings.

The poem is a kind of reflection by the speaker of the inevitability of a man's death. There are birth, deaths and eventual rebirth, the cycle continues even without the man. Man's existence will not have an impact on nature. The cycle will go on and on even without him, even after he's long gone. Considering the time of writing, we can say that the author is more accepting of what his future will be. Longfellow wrote the poem after he's old, after losing two wives. And now he himself is getting old and in no time he will also leave this earth. So, the poem is a kind of reasserting the temporary nature of a man's life on earth. He now feels a peaceful sense of completion, welcoming the evident death that's coming on the way for him.

the anecdote makes readers feel sorry for the man’s lack of heritage, then reminds readers that the man has an equally valuable heritage.