Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam, A.H.H.' Stands as one of the finest examples of elegy in the English language. Watch our lesson to learn all about this masterpiece, including its possible.
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Borrowed from Latinmemoria, from memor(“mindful, remembering”).
(ambiguous) to read a speech: de scripto orationemhabere, dicere (opp. sine scripto, ex memoria)
memoria in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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memoriaf (pluralmemorias)
Obsolete spelling of memória
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IPA(key): [meˈmo.ri.a]
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memoriaf
definitenominative/accusativesingular of memorie
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From Latinmemoria.
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memoriaf (pluralmemorias)
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Bust of Arthur Henry Hallam by' In Memoriam A.H.H.' Is a poem by the British poet, completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poet's beloved friend, who died suddenly of a in Vienna in 1833, aged 22. It contains some of Tennyson's most accomplished lyrical work, and is an unusually sustained exercise in lyric verse.
It is widely considered to be one of the greatest poems of the 19th century.The original title of the poem was 'The Way of the Soul', and this might give an idea of how the poem is an account of all Tennyson's thoughts and emotions as he grieves over the death of a close friend. He views the cruelty of nature and mortality in light of materialist science and faith. Owing to its length and its arguable breadth of focus, the poem might not be thought an or a in the strictest formal sense. Contents.Form The poem is not arranged exactly in the order in which it was written. The prologue, for example, is thought to have been one of the last things written.
The earliest material is thought to be that which begins 'Fair ship, that from the Italian shore Saileth the placid ocean-plains' and imagines the return of Hallam's body from Italy. Critics believe, however, that the poem as a whole is meant to be chronological in terms of the progression of Tennyson's grief. The passage of time is marked by the three descriptions of Christmas at different points in the poem, and the poem ends with a description of the marriage of Tennyson's sister.' In Memoriam' is written in four-line ABBA stanzas of, and such stanzas are now called In Memoriam Stanzas. Though not metrically unusual, given the length of the work, the metre creates a tonal effect that often divides readers – is it the natural sound of mourning and grief, or merely monotonous? The poem is divided into 133 (including the prologue and epilogue), and in contrast to its constant and regulated metrical form, encompasses many different subjects: profound spiritual experiences, nostalgic reminiscence, philosophical speculation, Romantic fantasizing and even occasional verse.
The death of Hallam, and Tennyson's attempts to cope with this, remain the strand that ties all these together.Quotations The most frequently quoted lines in the poem are perhapsI hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.This stanza is to be found in Canto 27. The last two lines are usually taken as offering a meditation on the dissolution of a romantic relationship. However, the lines originally referred to the death of the poet's beloved friend. They are reminiscent of a line from 's popular 1700 play,: 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.' Another much-quoted phrase from the poem is 'nature, red in tooth and claw,' found in Canto 56, referring to humanity:Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd against his creedAlso, the following are found in Canto 54So runs my dream, but what am I? An infant crying in the night An infant crying for the light And with no language but a cry.Also occasionally quoted are these lines from Canto 123The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.This references the recent discovery by geologists of Earth's great age and mutability, a scientific wonder that underlay emerging ideas of nature and evolution. Nature, red in tooth and claw Although this phrase 'tooth and claw' is commonly ascribed to Tennyson, it already was in use.
For example, The Hagerstown Mail in March 1837: 'Hereupon, the beasts, enraged at the humbug, fell upon him tooth and claw.' In writing the poem, Tennyson was influenced by the evolutionary ideas of presented in which had been published in 1844, and had caused a storm of controversy about the implications of impersonal nature functioning without direct divine intervention.
An focus on unquestioning belief in revealed truth taken from a literal interpretation of the Bible was already coming into conflict with emerging findings of science. Tennyson expressed the difficulties evolutionary ideas raised for faith in 'the truths that never can be proved', while still believing the older idea that reason would eventually harmonise science and religion, as there could be no real contradiction. Canto 55 asks:Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams?.
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