The poem In Memoriam

 Prepared by;
 Dekan Jaza
 &
 Sazan Salam
 Alfred Lord Tennyson
 Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892)
was a British poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland
during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular
British poets. He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems Chiefly
Lyrical in 1830. Although his works decried by some critics as overly
sentimental, his verse soon proved popular and brought Tennyson to the
attention of well-known writers of the day, including
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Much of his verse was based on classical
mythological themes, such as "Ulysses", although "In Memoriam A.H.H." was
written to commemorate his friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and student,
after he died of a stroke at the age of 22.[4] Tennyson also wrote some
notable blank verse including Idylls of the King, "Ulysses", and During his
career, Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little success.
 In Memoriam
 "In Memoriam A.H.H." or simply "In Memoriam" is
a poem by the British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson,
completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poet's
beloved Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam,
who died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage in
Vienna in 1833. 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 great poems of
the 19th century.[1]
 In Memoriam
 Tennyson' Poem In Memoriam is a very long
one. It was written for 17 years from 1833 to
1849 and was published in 1850 as a single
poem. The poem is divided into 133 Cantos
including Prologue and Epilogue. There are
minimum 3 and maximum 36 stanzas in a
Canto , total 723 stanzas.
 Summary
 In Memoriam is Tennyson's elegiac tribute to
his closest friend, Arthur Henry Hallam, who
died suddenly in September, 1833. Hallam's
death dealt a particularly harsh blow to the
poet. Almost immediately, Tennyson began
attempting to capture his sense of loss and
feelings of grief in brief lyrical sketches
 In Memoriam
I sometimes hold it half a sin
 To put in words the grief I feel;
 For words, like Nature, half reveal
 And half conceal the Soul within.

 But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
 A use in measured language lies;
 The sad mechanic exercise,
 Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.

 In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er,
 Like coarsest clothes against the cold:
 But that large grief which these enfold
 Is given in outline and no more.
 In Memoriam
 The path by which we twain did go,
 Which led by tracts that pleased us well,
 Thro' four sweet years arose and fell,
 From flower to flower, from snow to snow:


 And we with singing cheer'd the way,

 And, crown'd with all the season lent,
 From April on to April went,
 And glad at heart from May to May:

 But where the path we walk'd began
 To slant the fifth autumnal slope,
 As we descended following Hope,
 There sat the Shadow fear'd of man;
 In Memoriam

 Who broke our fair companionship,

 And spread his mantle dark and cold,
 And wrapt thee formless in the fold,
 And dull'd the murmur on thy lip,


 And bore thee where I could not see

 Nor follow, tho' I walk in haste,
 And think, that somewhere in the waste
 The Shadow sits and waits for me.


The End