Comparing Poems

In The Tide Rises The Tide Falls, the poem illustrates how a person can come and go easily and without noticing. In that poem, the effect of a man passing away is reduced to a minimum. On contrast, in the poem The Cross of Snow, a woman died and the author made such a big deal out of it that the whole grief is like a huge cross on a mountain.  In the first poem, it generalized everyone into a man, and the only thing that the man leaves is footprints on the sand. On the other hand, the second poem mentioned a lady (only one) with the trace of a huge sacred snow cross on the mountain. We can see from this how the first author shares a different view from Longfellow (the second author). And as all readers should know by now after reading some of my previous posts that I believe in the first poem, which shows how man is really nothing after they died. If every man has this huge cross on a mountain, we need a lot of Earth to cover with crosses, which is irrational~~. Therefore, as a rationalist, I believe in the first poem.