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Tennyson ‘In Memoriam’
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- 1850s England
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- University Of Reading (UoR)
Lecture notes on Tennyson’a ‘In Memoriam’ and context
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📖Seminar 2: Tennyson
Read 'In Memorian A.H.H
Read 'Calculating Loss'
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Prep Work
Context
born 1809, died 1892
poet laureate 1850
Studied at Cambridge but couldn't afford to continue studying after father
passed.
In Memorian A.H.H
published in 1850
requiem for premature death of best friend, Arthur Henry Hallam (d. 1833)
originally titled 'The Way of the Soul'
Queen Victoria's favourite poem - she found it very comforting after Albert's
death
Seminar 2: Tennyson 1
, uses individual bereavement to grapple broader questions of faith, meaning
and nature
Calculating Loss in Tennyson's In Memoriam - Irene Hsiao
(2009)
(Read here)
Freud's definition of mourning:
"the subject detaches itself from the lost object and retrieves its
independence"
To mourn, by Freud's early definition, is also to murder, to make the loss
a product of one's own actions.
"a supreme act of remembering and bit a resurrection"
elegy = "supralinguistic level"
Sections were written at difference places in different times, Tennyson did
not write them to be woven together
Tennyson describes the "I" instead as the "human race" ventriloquizing his
vacated body.
universal acknowledgement of feelings.
"I" should be a private matter, does Tennyson use the poem to share
emotions or to relate to the wider society
Divided into parts and Christmas - why Christmas?
Celebration of birth? of Joy?
most resembles is the sonnet sequence
Although the Prologue ends with Tennyson's Petrarchan apology, it be- gins
on a larger scale, in an address to "immortal Love" by a voice emanating
from "man."
love and loss appear together and apart
In section IX, the same limits modify the de- ceased friend: "my lost Arthur's
loved remains." This is the first time the dead man is explicitly cited; naming
him in combination with "the Italian shore," Tennyson invites the reader by
markers of name and place to remember the "A.H.H." of the poem's title and
Seminar 2: Tennyson 2
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