In Memoriam A.H.H. Themes

Let's get this one out of the way right up front, shall we? In Memoriam's very title drops a big clue on our heads that we're dealing with grief and mourning. In memoriam means "in the memory of" s...

Since Tennyson brings up The Big Guy immediately in the prologue of In Memoriam, we know right away that religion will be on the menu throughout the entire poem. This plays out in several different...

Here's a fun fact: Tennyson was probably the first English poet to tackle the problem of man's role in a universe that was (at the time) starting to be explained more and more by science (source)....

Something that Tennyson continually runs up against in In Memoriam is his inability to adequately express what he's thinking or feeling. In some ways, this is right on, since he's dealing with lots...