Analyse ‘Break,
Break, Break’ as a poem with an elegiac note.
Break, Break, Break is a sea elegy
written by Lord Tennyson on the death of his university friend Arthur Henry
Hallum. Here, the ever-breaking sea, the fisherman's boy, the stately ships,
etc. all show the permanence of the world around and yet they remain unaffected
by the poet's personal grief. However, the thoughts contained in this elegy are
not so elaborate and high as in In Memorium but the Current of thoughts is not
less pathetic.
In this short lyric, Nature serves as a mirror of poet’s intense feelings of sorrow. The poem has reference to a watering place on the Bristol Channel where his friend is buried. Simple and lucid, the poem regards the poet’s intense grief which is shared by Nature. In the opening lines, the impression of an unpleasant face is being hammered into the poet’s consciousness. The poet wishes, he could give his voices to his humbled and anguished feelings just as sea breaks on the story surface. Farther, the cold gray stones could be interpreted as gravestones, as well as the cliff walls.
“Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.”
In the next stanza, the dead past and sea both
create a feeling of soft melancholy. The friendship between the children and
the contentment of the sailor boy make him feel ................In this short lyric, Nature serves as a mirror of poet’s intense feelings of sorrow. The poem has reference to a watering place on the Bristol Channel where his friend is buried. Simple and lucid, the poem regards the poet’s intense grief which is shared by Nature. In the opening lines, the impression of an unpleasant face is being hammered into the poet’s consciousness. The poet wishes, he could give his voices to his humbled and anguished feelings just as sea breaks on the story surface. Farther, the cold gray stones could be interpreted as gravestones, as well as the cliff walls.
“Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.”
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