"The sea is calm tonight,
The tide is full, the moon lies fair"
This poem as a whole describes how life is always changing and how sad it can be. I thought the tone of the poem was sadness and melancholy. The poem contains some gloomy diction like "sadness," "misery," and "distant" that adds to the tone of the poem. Then at the end of the first stanza, it talks about the eternal sadness in the world. It also contains a lot of nature imagery to symbolize human emotions. Our emotions are always changing like the tide and we must learn to adapt to our surroundings. The speaker also discusses the decline of faith in his time which he compares to the retreating tide.
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