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Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea,
Thy tribute wave deliver:
No more by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.
Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea,
A rivulet then a river:
Nowhere by thee my steps shall be
For ever and for ever.
But here will sigh thine alder tree
And here thine aspen shiver;
And here by thee will hum the bee,
For ever and for ever.
A thousand suns will stream on thee,
A thousand moons will quiver;
But not by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Marieta Maglas
(7/31/2009 4:33:00 PM) |
this anaphora:
''by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.''
is wonderful and is also a really secret of mine now when I must recognize that I am near my special love, poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson.........
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Poppy Smith
(6/10/2009 6:40:00 PM) |
Definitely, Tennyson shows a jealousy towards nature and its ability to live on as humans cannot. Similarly, the 'yew tree' in 'In Memoriam', sprays its pollen out in a 'smoke' in an atmosphere of death.
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>^_^< Cat
(8/22/2008 5:32:00 AM) |
Its a beautiful poem. It expreeses the poets sad mood. It looks very sad type of poem. It says that the rivulet goes on moving till it becomes a river and then it merges in the sea. I sense a feeling the like that rivulet, we, too have a short life and we grow up and at last we too go away frome this earth to the God.
It says that as the river flows it gives evrybody happiness. We learn that we too should be like the river.
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Giovanna Marasco
(4/21/2006 2:04:00 PM) |
Why isn't this in the top 500 yet when it has 11 votes and an average of 10? come on people! Don't you know a masterpiece when you see it?
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Back Into Our Dreams
(5/31/2005 4:20:00 AM) |
It's a beautifully written poem, in my opinion. However, as I read it, I sensed a tense mood. It wasn't positive, it was more negative... and I believe Tennyson's use of words most likely contributed to this ('cold', 'sigh', 'shiver', 'quiver'.. etc.) , and even the title itself, 'A Farewell', expresses a negative, depressing tone. Overall, I think the message of the poem refers to the endurance of nature versus the life of man, how nature lives on and humans meet their inevitable fates, and the speaker of the poem says their final goodbye to life.
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