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Dr Stephanie Forward considers the poet's huge popularity in the second half of the 19th century, and the decline of his reputation in the 20th. In Memoriam reflects the Victorian struggle to … Consisting of 131 sections, a prologue, and an epilogue, this chiefly elegiac work examines the different stages of Tennyson’s period of mourning over the death of his close friend Arthur Henry Hallam.
Critics believe, however, that the poem as a whole is meant to be chronological in terms of the progression of Tennyson's grief.
Notebook of Arthur Henry Hallam. The poet attributes the sun and moon (“these orbs or light and shade”) to God, and acknowledges Him as the creator of life and death in both man and animals.
And love Creation's final law—/ It's that age-old story: boy meets boy; boy loses boy; boy endlessly ruminates on the nature of loss and grief with some meditations on evolution and religion thrown in just for kicks.
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Dr Seamus Perry explains how Tennyson transformed a catastrophic episode in the Crimean war into one of the 19th-century’s most successful poems, using rhythm, repetition and vocabulary to convey both the folly of the cavalry charge and the bravery of the soldiers.
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In Memoriam A.H.H.is the extended, fragmentary elegy that Tennysonwrote for his closest friend Arthur Henry Hallam, after Hallam’s sudden death at age 22. <>
The poem In Memoriam was published in 1850 and he was made the Poet Laureate