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Lord Alfred Tennyson's poem "Break, Break, Break" has a deep meaning about the death of someone close to you.
This poem has many subtle death references such as "cold gray" while talking about the stone is the first stanza, "vanished hand" and "still" in the 3rd stanza when remembering that they are gone, and in the last stanza "dead" and "never come back to me" both make the reader remember that the loved one is dead and nothing you can do will change that. The lines in the 2nd stanza show a "fisherman's boy" who is playing with his sister and a "sailor lad" who is singing on his boat, both are happy. He began both sentences with "o, well", as if these people don't matter to the poet because they don't know what it's like to feel what he is feeling. Also in the beginning of the 3rd stanza the ships have a place to go, while in the end, the poet is lost with no destination to go to.
He references the sea many times throughout this poem and Its simply to make you think of the crashing of the waves. He does this because waves "break" along the shore, and it also gives you the jagged rhythm of this poem. Even though it tries to follow the regular pattern, it fails to. This is also a message to the reader, and that message is simply that no matter how hard you try, life will not be the same after you have lost someone close to you.
Lord Alfred Tennyson's poem "Break, Break, Break" has a deep meaning about the death of someone close to you.
This poem has many subtle death references such as "cold gray" while talking about the stone is the first stanza, "vanished hand" and "still" in the 3rd stanza when remembering that they are gone, and in the last stanza "dead" and "never come back to me" both make the reader remember that the loved one is dead and nothing you can do will change that. The lines in the 2nd stanza show a "fisherman's boy" who is playing with his sister and a "sailor lad" who is singing on his boat, both are happy. He began both sentences with "o, well", as if these people don't matter to the poet because they don't know what it's like to feel what he is feeling. Also in the beginning of the 3rd stanza the ships have a place to go, while in the end, the poet is lost with no destination to go to.
He references the sea many times throughout this poem and Its simply to make you think of the crashing of the waves. He does this because waves "break" along the shore, and it also gives you the jagged rhythm of this poem. Even though it tries to follow the regular pattern, it fails to. This is also a message to the reader, and that message is simply that no matter how hard you try, life will not be the same after you have lost someone close to you.