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| "Like a guilty thing I creep at earliest mornin to the door" |
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| Uncertainty/hesitation because he knows his friend is not there |
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| "On the bald streets break the blank day" |
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| The world is insensitive to the death of the speaker's friend |
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| "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" |
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| Loving means truly bein human |
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| "O, yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of evil" |
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| even though something seems bad, the final goal is to move forward; humans cannot know, only trust |
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| "That not a worm is cloven in vain, that not a moth is with vain desire is shriveled in a fruitless fire, or but subserves another's gain" |
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| Even trivial things can sometimes be very purposeful |
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| "An infant crying in the night, an infant crying for the light, and with no language but to cry" |
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| Experience wields optimism that things will get better, compared to a naive infant. |
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| "Ring out the grief that saps the mind" |
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| Rid the mind of grief that saps the mind of power |
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| "Ring out, ring out, my mournful rhymes" |
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| He wants to rid his poetry of sadness, wants to write about happier things |
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| "Thy voice is on the rolling air; I hear thee when the waters run, thou standest in the rising sun, and in the setting thou art fair." |
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| Hallam is one with the universe; though he's a part of nature doesn't mean tennyson loves him less |
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| "though mixed with god and nature thou, i seem to love thee more and more" |
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| Tennyson loves the Spiritual hallam more and understands that he is in a better place now. |
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| "I shall not lose thee though I die" |
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| First stanza information- crossing the bar |
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| Two controlling metaphors: the sea and crossing the bar. The auditory image (pathetic fallacy)- moaning of the bar. stands for gut wrenching pain; pain of friends and family. he does not want his family to be sad. |
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| Second stanza information- crossing the bar |
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long and short lines to reflect the waves; soothing and calming.
heaven is his home |
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| third stanza- crossing the bar |
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| wants no sadness for his death |
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| fourth stanza- crossing the bar |
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hopes to see his pilot before he dies
pilot is god
going to his home |
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| indirect view of life in order to work |
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| distractions and temptations |
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| author of from midnights children |
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| author of dead men's path |
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| author of the rocking horse winner |
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| author of shooting an elephant |
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