Dreams And Imagined Visions By Tennyson - 1636 Words

As early as the second section we are told of Hallam s final burial below a Yew, whose â€Å"fibres net the dreamless head of Hallam. Tennyson s choice to focus on the â€Å"dreamless† aspect of his friend s skull above any other adjective such as lifeless or thoughtless places an emphasis on dreams at an early point in the poem. Dreams act as a place inbetween the hard, sometimes unbearable reality of Tennyson s loss and the unreachable state of heaven that Hallam is in. Dreams and imagined visions are the places where Tennyson is able to truly grapple both the pain caused by the loss of his friend and the accompanying religious doubt. It is one of these dreams that Tennyson comes into contact with a mysterious â€Å"angel of the night† who transforms the symbolic crown of thorns he is wearing â€Å"into leaf†. â€Å"He reach d the glory of a hand, That seem d to touch it into leaf; The voice was not the voice of grief, The words were hard to understand.† The â€Å"angel† mentioned could either be a version of the spirit of Arthur Hallam, with which Tennyson enters into many passages of imagined dialogue, or a dreamt version of a Christian angel, partaking in a transformative process. The ambiguity of the situation is important, while it seems unlikely that it is Hallam s true spirit given Tennyson s continuous desire for that very encounter in much of the rest of In Memoriam the very suggestion combined with the restorative process of a positive force provides a note of hopeShow MoreRelatedEssay on A Brief Biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Moulton932 Words   |  4 Pagesthis life will always effect you in the end. Have you ever thought that, â€Å"I can do all things but fail†, always put that living light first, once you have applied that light, there is nothing you could possibly want. Elizabeth Browning – Moulton, imagined that one day one would put that beautiful light first in life, added things will keep coming in one’s favor. Elizabeth Barrett Moulton is known as one of the most famous British poets of all time during The Victorian Era. As a person of distinctionRead More The Search for Self in Tirra Lirra by the River Essay2806 Words   |  12 Pagesexpect something special from life draws the ominous growled out question ... Who does she think she is? (p. 13.). It is only while convalescing in bed that Nora begins to separate her real self from her imagined self3. It is through her ability to resolve the conflict between her dream world and reality that she escapes the curse of living in a shadow world - a curse shared with her symbolic counterpart the Lady of Shallot. Like the Lady of Shallot, she looks on reality, but unlike her, NoraRead MoreStylistic Potential of the English Noun16714 Words   |  67 PagesSpeaking about the impending death E.Dickenson, for example, made the latter masculine. Hemingway, on the contrary, referred to it with the pronoun it making it neuter. And so the reader gets the idea according to Kolpakchi M.A. that E.Dickenson imagined death as a man and Hemingway who had seen a lot of cases of death considered it an ordinary thing not personifying it. Now let us consider one more thing, namely zoomorphisms. These are the words that denote animals, birds, or fantastic creatures