In Memoriam

In Memoriam A. H. H. by Tennyson is a vast work that reveals characteristics of Victorian poetic theory in myriad ways. A small sampling here that will give guidance as to Tennyson's implementation...

Dedicated to his deceased friend of five years, Arthur Henry Hallman Alfred Lord Tennyson's "In Memoriam" loosely follows the pattern of a pastoral elegy. Thematic of this elegy is Tennyson's...

In "Ring Out, Wild Bells"—by Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson—you will be able to find many examples of the literary device called personification. Personification describes a non-human...

In this section of the poem the speaker contemplates an old tree that lies in a graveyard and is so close to the graves that it "graspest" at the gravestones themselves. This tree is seen as a...

This section of this famous poem on the topic of grief and how Tennyson handles the death of his close friend, Alfred Hallam, deals with how Tennyson tries to comfort himself that although his...

Notable literary elements in Tennyson’s poem “In Memoriam” can be interpreted effectively relative to aspects of form and structure. The majority of poetry in the past was written to conform to...

In Canto VII Tennyson is reminded of his late friend, Hallam, by visiting the place (the "dark house") where Hallam once lived. At night, the memory keeps Tennyson awake, and so he finds himself...

Tennyson's dear friend Arthur Henry Hallam had died more than fifteen years before. Tennyson grieved long for his companion and wrote this poem to memorialize him. In this section, Tennyson reaches...

In this section of this tremendous poem, the speaker describes one Christmas soon after Hallam's death where he is struggling to get into the festive spirit, burdened as he is by the death of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam, a lengthy elegy composed over seventeen years, is consistent with the concerns of England’s Victorian era in numerous ways. The interrelated social, political,...

In Memoriam isn't so much a poem as a collection of poems; 131, of them, to be precise. (Or 133, if you include the prologue and epilogue). Each individual poem, or canto, is comprised of four...

Life and death are represented in Tennyson's In Memoriam as in constant tension. Despite the death of Hallam and the enormous impact it has on Tennyson, there is an underlying hope in renewed life,...

The weaknesses of Tennyson, in the text "In Memoriam," depend upon an individual reader's interpretation and understanding of the poem. Unfortunately, there will be some readers who believe, and...

Let us remember that above all this poem concerns Tennyson's battle with his Christian faith in the light of scientific advances made in the Victorian era that seemed to disprove Christianity and...

In Section 67, the speaker finds that the moonlight that falls upon him at night when he is in bed makes him think of Arthur Hallam, the close friend whose death inspired this collection of poems,...

I have to take issue with #2. Whilst the poem is overtly about Tennyson's struggle to come to terms with the death of a deeply-loved friend, this is used to express Tennyson's reflection on the...

"Ring out, wild bells" starts with a plea for change, addressed to nature itself: "The year is dying in the night; / Ring out, wild bells, and let him die." It pauses on an image of snow, which is...

Section 7 of this powerful poem is a very clear and evocative description of grief that identifies the kind of impact that loss is having on the speaker. He describes himself as being "like a...

Tennyson is able to use sound in a very distinct way. Sound does support meaning in a some noteworthy ways. One way is in the poem's rhyme scheme. The four stanzas feature rhyming patterns in...

Learning how to scan poems takes practice. The first step is reading the lines aloud and hearing the alternation of weak and strong syllables as you naturally pronounce them. For a more analytic...

Tennyson's long poem "In Memoriam" expresses the grief and remorse the poet felt as he processed the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam over a seventeen year period. Hallam was only 22 when he...

The speaker of this poem to all intents and purposes can be taken as being Tennyson himself, as he writes an intensely personal poem describing his struggle to come to terms with the death of his...

"In Memoriam," a poem Tennyson composed in memory of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly in 1833, appeared in 1849. During the 17 years it took Tennyson to write his poem,...

This particular section of this wonderful poem, in which Tennyson explores his response to the loss of his best friend, Arthur Hallam, describes the first Christmas after Hallam's death. However...

Rapid scientific advances and technological changes in the nineteenth century led Victorians to feel anxious about their society, their historical views, and how they saw themselves. This century...

I agree with the second post. Like many great elegies (such as "Lycidas," by John Milton, or the "Anniversary" poems of John Donne), this poem does much more than simply memorialize a dead person....

To get you started on this assignment, let's reflect on the meaning of "ethics of preservation" and determine what Tennyson is trying to preserve and how he does it in In Memoriam. The poet is...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's work, In Memorium, was an enormous success. It was written during the Victorian era, seen as a chaotic time of "scientific discovery and growing industrialization." Many...

Tennyson's In Memoriam is a series of more than 130 lyric poems that deal with the poet's stages of grief following the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam. The poems are only loosely...