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In Memoriam
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...
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In Memoriam
Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all. The above quote is so famous it is tempting to think of it as coming from ancient folklore rather than a Victorian poem written...
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In Memoriam
In Memoriam A. H. H. is masterful in its structure and style. To fully appreciate and interpret the work, readers must be familiar with the biographical context in which it was written. The piece...
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In Memoriam
Understanding of the Limits of Rationality in Light of the Inexpressability of Grief In Memoriam A. H. H. is, first and foremost, a poem in which Tennyson wrestles with the sudden and early death...
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In Memoriam
Although a few isolated characters appear in some of the sections of In Memoriam A. H. H., there are really only three main characters in the poem. The first is Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the poet; the...
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In Memoriam
Introduction In Memoriam A. H. H., the long elegiac poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, consists of 131 sections, sometimes called cantos, plus a prologue and an epilogue. Although the poem's individual...
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In Memoriam
Some of the notable literary elements in the poem "In Memoriam" by Lord Alfred Tennyson include: - The use of Rhyme, and especially end-rhyme: we, that have not seen thy face,...
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In Memoriam
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...
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In Memoriam
An elegiac poem tends to express feelings of great mourning. Therefore, an elegiac poem tends to be written about someone or something that has passed away and is gone forever. Tennyson's In...
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In Memoriam
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...
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In Memoriam
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...
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In Memoriam
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...
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In Memoriam
This is happily a very straightforward bit of In Memoriam. Tennyson clearly shows how he is seeking comfort from Hallam. There are two things that may be said about Tennyson's technique. The first...
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In Memoriam
In Section 54 of “In Memoriam” Tennyson explores the speaker’s internal struggle to blindly accept faith. In the first stanza of Section 54, Tennyson comments on how we have to blindly accept...
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In Memoriam
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...
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In Memoriam
This classic section of Tennyson's long poem about his battle with grief and doubt captures one moment when, after Hallam's death, Tennyson returns to the house where he lived and where Tennyson...
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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,...
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In Memoriam
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...
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In Memoriam
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...
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He does up to a certain point. Let us remember that, while this incredible poem is written as a pageant to his dead friend, Hallam, Tennyson also uses this poem to explore his own faith struggles...
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In Memoriam
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...
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In Memoriam
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...
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In Memoriam
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...
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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...
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In Memoriam
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...
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In Memoriam
The poem is a tribute to a lost friend, but the friend's death makes Tennyson stop to think about life and faith. A loss such as this one often makes a person reconsider elements of faith, and...
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In Memoriam
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...