Through out life, we encounter many obstacles and joys in our “journey’ towards death. Some people rush through their lives and others actually stop to take in their surroundings and enjoy life. In Robert Frost’s “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening” and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”, the two poets represent people in life as a traveler on his way to some unknown destination. In Frost’s poem, the traveler wishes he could stop for a while to just observe the peacefulness and tranquility of the woods (life). Longfellow’s poem discusses how we all go through life and many different situations, but the sea (life) still ebbs and flows. These two poems, although written in different eras, have striking similarities and differences.

The settings in such poems as “The Tide Rises The Tide Falls” and Stopping By Woods….” are very vital to the message

The themes of each poem always seem to trace back to life. In both poems there is a theme of traveling. Many people think of this as traveling through life, while others simply see it as going on a journey. Either way, the similarities are there. Another theme, oddly enough, is death. “And miles to go before I sleep” can be considered as years to go before I die. In “ The Tide Rises The Tide Falls” the traveler will never return to the shore, insinuating that he has died. Other themes are not as easy to pick out, such as the theme of deepness and darkness. In he poems, these qualities apply to both the woods and the sea. Both are deep and dark, but represent different things. The woods represent life, while the sea represents death.

The two poems, although similar in many ways, are told from different points of view. “ The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” is told in the third person. This makes it easy to get the point across t

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