Legacy of Life Tennyson
A Legacy of Life By Heather Harte-Hall Alfred Lord Tennyson, born 1809, was one of the great representative figures of the Victorian age. The son of Reverend George Clayton Tennyson, he had an increasing fear of his father¡¦s drunken violence and paranoid resentment at family injustices. ... In 1833, Hallam died plunging Tennyson into a period of depression. Devastated by this loss, Tennyson proceeded to write ¡§Ulysses.¡¨ (Encarta 2002) Tennyson attempts to reconcile with the death of his friend in the lines of Ulysses and, as he depicts their friendship together one can elicit a sense of restlessness, ¡§¡¨we are not now that strength which in old days moved heaven and earth, that which we are, we are¡¨. We see Tennyson celebrating, painting a picture of their life together, how they fought many battles and had seen many things. However, through introspection, Tennyson appears to face the inevitability of his own death and recognizes that he has much to achieve to accomplish his dreams.