Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born in 1809 in Somersby. He didn't come into fame until 1842 when he published Poems after his "ten years silence." Tennyson's "ten years silence" was Tennyson's withdrawal from society where all he did was write and spend time with his family. In Memoriam was published in 1850, and are a collection of 131 poems that deal with death and the grieving process of death. In these poems, Tennyson comes to terms with the death of two close people in his life: his father and his best friend Arthur Henry Hallam.
In poem 7 from In Memoriam, there are images of darkness and loneliness. The "dark house", the "long unlovely street", and "doors where his heart used to beat" are images that depict loneliness and darkness. In this poem he is missing someone that has passed away. He says "So quickly, waiting for a hand, a hand that can be clasped no more." He misses this person and he can't be with them or be around them anymore because they have passed away. Even though he is feeling bad, everything keeps moving, and life goes on no matter how bad he is feeling. "And ghastly through the drizzling rain on the bald street breaks the blank day" and "The noise of life begins again" shows that Tennyson is trying to move on with the death of his loved one. .
From In Memoriam- 54, Tennyson's view on death seems more understanding. "O, yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill" says that everybody wants.
to go to heaven to escape a bad life and attain a better one. Everyone or everything in life has a purpose and one thing is not more important that the other. "That nothing walks with aimless feet" shows that everyone has a goal or something higher that they are reaching for. Everything was created equally, and not for selfish reasons- "that not a worm cloven in vain; that not a moth with vain desire." Tennyson also looks at death as a good thing. That something good comes out of something bad.
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