A. Tennyson’S In Memoriam: Stylistic Analysis
The poem that we are going to analyze in this paper is section XI from the poem In Memoriam, which was written in 1850 by Alfred Tennyson.
In Memoriam is a long poem with 131 sections with a varying length. Besides this, it also has a prologue and an epilogue, a happy marriage song on the occasion of the wedding of Tennyson’s sister Cecilia. It was written after the death of Arthur Henry Hallam, a friend of Tennyson’s and it deals with many intellectual issues of the Victorian Age, since the author tried to find a meaning for life and death and he also tries to cope with his sense of loss. Furthermore, In Memoriam links traditional religious faith and belief in immortality with the theories of evolution and modern geology which were emerging at the time the author was writing. The lines of this poem were developed during a period of three years in which the author was trying to accept and understand his friend’s death ("Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron").......
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Approximate Pages: 9 (250 words per double-spaced page)
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