...through a fountain? Or, the first may rhyme with the fourth, and the second with the third : I sometimes hold it half a sin, To put in words the grief I feel,...nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. — Tennyson. The whole of "In Memoriam" is written in this form, and it is also found in Ben Jonson,...

...ag have no experience of the joys of the years). But perhaps ' gaudia annorum ' mean only flowers. A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain (v.) : Cf. Donne, Triple Fool : — I thought if I could draw my pains Through rhyme's vexation I should...

...weep and tears that speak. "Remember the words of Alfred Lord Tennyson in In Memoriam: I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel;...nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. (7) The use of high-sounding words with which the congregation is not familiar accomplishes no good....

...stairs so quickly he virtually leaped into Lionel's lap. "Oooh," Bert gasped. "Like tot-tal-ly haunted!" But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics numbing pain. — Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850 Lionel and Bert refused to go back upstairs that night, so I...

...harmonious impulsion. No matter how perfect it may be, something indefinable is lost in the expression. "For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." as Tennyson truly wrote of the expression of grief at the loss of a loved one. We realise the thoughts...

...offer Tennyson the laureateship. To Speak About Grief Language fails to express grief. I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel;...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. The "sorrow of language" writes Merleau-Ponty, is that words cannot express all we want to say. How...

...feelings and thoughts, and far more difficult to convey those of others. Tennyson was right when he wrote: For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. I am writing in a rather informal but hopefully objective manner. Many of those who have played an...

...the rocks as they do Who know how to ride this tumult safely And play its perils like a game. (22) But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. (5.5-8) Sarton's poem is no "mechanic exercise." She quickly abandons the meter and rhyme of "A Farewell"...

...reiteration, the animating principle of such poems as the Rubaiyat and Tennyson's In Memoriam, where we find "A use in measured language lies; / The sad mechanic exercise, / Like dull narcotics, numbing pain." The poems are in fairly uncomplicated language, except for no. 507, which situates its "mountain" in...

...the wild sky') where 'Ring out the old, ring in the new' signals brightening hope. Although fearing it 'half a sin/ To put in words the grief I feel', Tennyson needed 'the sad mechanic exercise'. Canto vn gives us the poet's desolation with terrible...